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Gauge theories in four dimensions can exhibit interesting low energy phenomena, such as infrared enhancements of global symmetry. We explore a class of 4d \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 gauge theories arising from a construction that is motivated by duality walls in 5d gauge theories. Their quiver descriptions bear a resemblance to 4d theories obtained by compactifying 6d \( \mathcal{N} \) = (1, 0) superconformal field theories on a torus with fluxes, but with lower number of flavours and different number of gauge singlets and superpotentials. One of the main features of these theories is that they exhibit a flavour symmetry enhancement, and with supersymmetry enhancement for certain models, in the infrared. Properties of the superconformal fixed points of such theories are investigated in detail.
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Garozzo, I., Mekareeya, N., Sacchi, M. et al. Symmetry enhancement and duality walls in 5d gauge theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 159 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2020)159
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