Infrared phases of 3D class R theories

Abstract

Abstract We study the IR phases of 3D class R theories associated with closed non-hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Non-hyperbolic 3-manifolds can be obtained by performing Dehn fillings on 1-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds along exceptional slopes. In 3D-3D correspondence, the ‘exceptional’ Dehn filling corresponds to the gauging of an SU(2) flavor symmetry in a superconformal field theory associated with a 1-cusped 3-manifold with ‘small’ Chern-Simons levels. With several explicit examples, we analyze various interesting non-perturbative IR phenomena (such as spontaneous SUSY breaking, generation of mass gap and supersymmetry enhancement) from the ‘exceptional’ gaugings. Interestingly, distinguished features of the IR phases can be captured by simple topological properties of non-hyperbolic 3-manifolds. We also find that 3D class R theories associated with certain classes of atoroidal non-hyperbolic 3-manifolds always exhibit supersymmetry enhancement at low energy and actually flow to 3D rank-0 $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 SCFTs with trivial vacuum moduli space.