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Starting from mirror pairs consisting only of linear (framed A-type) quivers, we demonstrate that a wide class of three-dimensional quiver gauge theories with \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 supersymmetry and their mirror duals can be obtained by suitably gauging flavor symmetries. Infinite families of mirror pairs including various quivers of D and E-type and their affine extensions, star-shaped quivers, and quivers with symplectic gauge groups may be generated in this fashion. We present two different computational strategies to perform the aforementioned gauging procedure — one of them involves \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2* classical parameter space description, while the other one uses partition functions of the \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 theories on S 3. The partition function, in particular, turns out to be an extremely efficient tool for implementing this gauging procedure as it readily generalizes to arbitrary size of the quiver and arbitrary rank of the gauge group at each node. For most examples of mirror pairs obtained via this procedure, we perform additional checks of mirror symmetry using the Hilbert series.
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Dey, A., Hanany, A., Koroteev, P. et al. Mirror symmetry in three dimensions via gauged linear quivers. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 59 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2014)059
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