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We study the 3d \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 theories resulting from the compactification of a family of 5d SCFTs on a torus with flux in the global symmetry. The family of 5d SCFTs used in the analysis is the one that UV completes the 5d SU(N + 1) gauge theories with Chern-Simons level k and Nf fundamental hypermultiplets, generalizing the previous investigation of the torus compactifications of the rank 1 Seiberg \( {E}_{N_{f+1}} \) SCFT (which is the N = 1 member of the family). This construction systematically yields three-dimensional theories presenting highly non-trivial non-perturbative phenomena such as infra-red dualities and enhanced symmetries, which we check using various methods.
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Sacchi, M., Sela, O. & Zafrir, G. On the 3d compactifications of 5d SCFTs associated with SU(N + 1) gauge theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 53 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2022)053
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