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Supersymmetric renormalization group flow

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Supersymmetric quantum field theories have special properties that make them easier to study. This Comment discusses how the constraints that supersymmetry places on renormalization group flows have been used to study strongly coupled field theories.

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Fig. 1: N = 1 theory flows in the infrared to a point on a conformal manifold of N ≥ 2 theory.

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The author thanks P. Agarwal, K. Intriligator, M. Kang, C. Lawrie, K.-H. Lee, K. Maruyoshi, E. Nardoni, S. Razamat, A. Sciarappa and Y. Tachikawa for collaborations and discussions. This work is supported by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant RS-2023-00208602 and also by the POSCO Science Fellowship of POSCO TJ Park Foundation.

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