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Non-abelian Chern-Simons theories are very rich. When coupled to matter in the fundamental representation of U(N), these theories are exactly solvable in the large N limit. We study the most general renormalizable N=1 U(N) Chern-Simons gauge theory coupled to a single (generically massive) fundamental matter multiplet. At leading order in the `t Hooft large N limit we present computations and conjectures for the 2 × 2 S matrix in these theories; our results apply at all orders in the `t Hooft coupling and the matter self interaction. Our S matrices are in perfect agreement with the recently conjectured strong weak coupling self duality of this class of theories. The consistency of our results with unitarity requires a modification of the usual rules of crossing symmetry in precisely the manner anticipated in arXiv:1404.6373, lending substantial support to the conjectures of that paper. In a certain range of coupling constants our $S$ matrices have a pole whose mass vanishes on a self dual codimension one surface in the space of couplings.
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