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We give simple string theory embeddings of several recently introduced dualities between 2+1-dimensional Chern-Simons matter theories using probe brane holography. Our construction is reliable in the limit of a large number of colors N with fixed Chern-Simons level k.
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Jensen, K., Karch, A. Embedding three-dimensional bosonization dualities into string theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 31 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2017)031
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