Comments on scaling limits of 4d N=2 theories
Abstract
We revisit the study of the maximally singular point in the Coulomb branch of 4d N=2 SU(N) gauge theory with Nf=2n flavors for Nf<2N. When n >= 2, we find that the low-energy physics is described by two non-trivial superconformal field theories coupled to a magnetic SU(2) gauge group which is infrared free. (In the special case n=2, one of these theories is a theory of free hypermultiplets.) This observation removes a possible counter example to a conjectured a-theorem.
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