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Planar Abelian mirror duals of $N = 2$ ${SQCD}_{3}$

Sergio Benvenuti ^1,*, Riccardo Comi ^2,3,†, Sara Pasquetti ^2,3,‡, Gabriel Pedde Ungureanu ^1,4,§, Simone Rota^1,4,∥, and Anant Shri ^1,4,¶

¹Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Via Valerio 2, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
²Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano, Italy
³Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano, Italy
⁴SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy

^*Contact author: benve79@gmail.com
^†Contact author: r.comi2@campus.unimib.it
^‡Contact author: sara.pasquetti@gmail.com
^§Contact author: gpeddeun@sissa.it
^∥Contact author: srota@sissa.it
^¶Contact author: ashri@sissa.it

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Phys. Rev. D 112, L101703 – Published 24 November, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/k5b3-lrnz

Abstract

We propose an Abelian mirror dual for the $N = 2$ ${SQCD}_{3}$ that we obtain as real mass deformation of known $N = 4$ mirror pairs. We match the superconformal index and the $S_{b}^{3}$ partition function, discuss the agreement of the moduli spaces, and provide a map of the gauge invariant operators and the global symmetries as evidence of this duality.

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Phys. Rev. D 112, L101703– Published 24 November, 2025

Vol. 112, Iss. 10 — 15 November 2025

Received 28 July 2025
Accepted 19 October 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/k5b3-lrnz

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