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We study the Coulomb phase of \( \mathcal{N} = 1 \) SU(2)3 gauge theory coupled to one trifundamental field, and generalizations thereof. The moduli space of vacua is always one-dimensional with multiple unbroken U(1) fields. We find that the \( \mathcal{N} = 1 \) Seiberg-Witten curve which encodes the U(1) couplings is given by the double cover of a Riemann surface branched at the poles and the zeros of a meromorphic function.
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Tachikawa, Y., Yonekura, K. \( \mathcal{N} = 1 \) curves for trifundamentals. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 25 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2011)025
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