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<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi>QCD</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math> with two-index quarks, mirror symmetry, and fivebrane anti-BIons near orientifolds
We consider a nonsupersymmetric Hanany-Witten type IIB brane configuration that realizes a three-dimensional $USp(2N)$ gauge theory with quarks in the two-index antisymmetric representation and $SO(4)$ flavor symmetry. Using type IIB $S$-duality we find the mirror dual, an $SO(2N\ensuremath{-}1)$ field theory with scalars in the antisymmetric representation. Analyzing the magnetic dual, …