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Evidence for Aharony duality for orthogonal gauge groups

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We study the Aharony duality for three dimensional \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) supersymmetric gauge theories for orthogonal gauge groups with matters in vector representation. We provide the evidence for the duality by working out the partition function on S 3 and the superconformal index, which show perfect agreement.

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    Chiung Hwang, Kyung-Jae Park & Jaemo Park

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Hwang, C., Park, KJ. & Park, J. Evidence for Aharony duality for orthogonal gauge groups. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 11 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2011)011

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