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Existence of IR SCFT for SU(N) with one adjoint, one symmetric and one conjugate antisymmetric plus chiral matter

Prove that the four-dimensional N=1 SU(N) gauge theory with one adjoint \Phi, one rank-2 symmetric S, one conjugate antisymmetric \widetilde{A}, (Nf+8) anti-fundamentals \widetilde{Q}, and Nf fundamentals Q (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−4.

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Background

This chiral SU(N) theory mixes adjoint and tensor matter with unequal fundamental multiplicities. The authors note that the top-of-window case Nf=N−4 has a non-trivial conformal manifold and that a-maximization is well-behaved for smaller Nf, motivating the conjecture of an interacting IR SCFT.

It belongs to the Type II universality class.

References

We therefore conjecture that this theory flows to an interacting SCFT for $0\leq N_f \leq N-4$.

Large N Universality of 4d N=1 SCFTs with Simple Gauge Groups (2510.19136 - Cho et al., 21 Oct 2025) in Section 4.12 (1 Adj + 1 S + 1 \overline{A} + 8 \overline{Q} + Nf (Q + \overline{Q})), Conformal window