Permutations of massive vacua

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)042MaRDI QIDQ682923zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Antoine Bourget, Jan Troost

Publication date 5 February 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02102

zbMATH Keywords

gauge symmetrysupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We discuss the permutation group G of massive vacua of four-dimensional gauge theories with N=1 supersymmetry that arises upon tracing loops in the space of couplings. We concentrate on superconformal N=4 and N=2 theories with N=1 supersymmetry preserving mass deformations. The permutation group G of massive vacua is the Galois group of characteristic polynomials for the vacuum expectation values of chiral observables. We provide various techniques to effectively compute characteristic polynomials in given theories, and we deduce the existence of varying symmetry breaking patterns of the duality group depending on the gauge algebra and matter content of the theory. Our examples give rise to interesting field extensions of spaces of modular forms.

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