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Existence of IR SCFT for SU(N) with one adjoint and one antisymmetric pair plus Nf fundamentals

Prove that the four-dimensional N=1 SU(N) gauge theory with one adjoint \Phi, one rank-2 antisymmetric A, one conjugate antisymmetric \widetilde{A}, and Nf pairs of fundamental Q and anti-fundamental \widetilde{Q} chiral multiplets (with superpotential W=0) flows to an interacting superconformal field theory in the infrared for all integers N and Nf satisfying 0 \le Nf \le N+2.

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Background

This SU(N) theory combines an adjoint with antisymmetric tensors and fundamentals. The authors find consistently that a-maximization yields a unique solution with central charges in unitary bounds, including the upper bound case with a conformal manifold, resulting in a conjecture of an interacting IR SCFT throughout the range.

It is a Type II theory with large-N universality.

References

We therefore conjecture that this theory flows to an interacting SCFT for $0\leq N_f \leq N+2$.

Large N Universality of 4d N=1 SCFTs with Simple Gauge Groups (2510.19136 - Cho et al., 21 Oct 2025) in Section 4.13 (1 Adj + 1 A + 1 \overline{A} + Nf (Q + \overline{Q})), Conformal window