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Existence of IR SCFT for SU(N) with two symmetrics and two conjugate antisymmetrics plus chiral matter

Prove that the four-dimensional N=1 SU(N) gauge theory with two rank-2 symmetric chiral multiplets S, two conjugate rank-2 antisymmetric multiplets \widetilde{A}, Nf fundamentals Q, and (Nf+16) anti-fundamentals \widetilde{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 < N−8.

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Background

This SU(N) theory features symmetric tensors and conjugate antisymmetrics with chiral matter content. The authors find a unique a-maximization solution and central charges within bounds, supporting their conjecture of an interacting IR SCFT across a specified window of Nf.

It falls in the Type II class with universal large-N behavior (a=c, sparse spectrum).

References

Therefore, we conjecture that this theory flows to an interacting SCFT for $0\leq N_f<N-8$.

Large N Universality of 4d N=1 SCFTs with Simple Gauge Groups (2510.19136 - Cho et al., 21 Oct 2025) in Section 4.9 (2 S + 2 \overline{A} + 16 \overline{Q} + Nf (Q + \overline{Q})), Conformal window