Dynamics of SU(N) supersymmetric gauge theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00258-TzbMATH Open1009.81571arXivhep-th/9503163OpenAlexW3103762099MaRDI QIDQ1571663FDOQ1571663

Stephen H. Shenker, Michael R. Douglas

Publication date: 11 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the physics of the Seiberg-Witten and Argyres-Faraggi-Klemm-Lerche-Theisen-Yankielowicz solutions of $D=4$, $mathcalN=2$ and $mathcalN=1$ $SU(N)$ supersymmetric gauge theory. The $mathcalN=1$ theory is confining and its effective Lagrangian is a spontaneously broken $U(1{)}^{N-1}$ abelian gauge theory. We identify some features of its physics which see this internal structure, including a spectrum of different string tensions. We discuss the limit $Nightarrowinfty$, identify a scaling regime in which instanton and monopole effects survive, and give exact results for the crossover from weak to strong coupling along a scaling trajectory. We find a large hierarchy of mass scales in the scaling regime, including very light $W$ bosons, and the absence of weak coupling. The light $W$'s leave a novel imprint on the effective dual magnetic theory. The effective Lagrangian appears to be inadequate to understand the conventional large $N$ limit of the confining $mathcalN=1$ theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9503163

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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