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In the last twenty years, low-energy (IR) dualities have been found for many pairs of supersymmetric gauge theories with four supercharges, both in four space-time dimensions and in three space-time dimensions. In particular, duals have been found for 3d \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 supersymmetric QCD theories with gauge group U(N), with \( \tilde{F} \) chiral multiplets in the fundamental representation, with F chiral multiplets in the anti-fundamental representation, and with Chern-Simons level k, for all values of N, F, \( \tilde{F} \) and k for which the theory preserves supersymmetry. For SU(N) theories the duals have been found in some cases, such as F = \( \tilde{F} \) and \( \tilde{F} \) =0, but not in the general case. In this note we find the IR dual for SU(N) SQCD theories with general values of N, F, \( \tilde{F} \) and k ≠ 0 which preserve supersymmetry.
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Aharony, O., Fleischer, D. IR dualities in general 3d supersymmetric SU(N) QCD theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 162 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2015)162
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