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We study dualities for 3d \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 SU(Nc) SQCD at Chern-Simons level k in presence of an adjoint with polynomial superpotential. The dualities are dubbed chiral because there is a different amount of fundamentals Nf and antifundamentals Na. We build a complete classification of such dualities in terms of |Nf − Na| and k. The classification is obtained by studying the flow from the non-chiral case, and we corroborate our proposals by matching the three-sphere partition functions. Finally, we revisit the case of SU(Nc) SQCD without the adjoint, comparing our results with previous literature.
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Amariti, A., Fazzi, M. Dualities for three-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 SU(Nc) chiral adjoint SQCD. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 30 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2020)030
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