S-duality in N=4 Yang-Mills theories with general gauge groups

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00177-TMaRDI QIDQ1571670zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Luciano Girardello, Amit Giveon, M. Porrati, Alberto Zaffaroni

Publication date 11 July 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9502057

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: 't Hooft construction of free energy, electric and magnetic fluxes, and of the partition function with twisted boundary conditions, is extended to the case of $N=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories based on arbitrary compact, simple Lie groups. The transformation of the fluxes and the free energy under S-duality is presented. We consider the partition function of $N=4$ for a particular choice of boundary conditions, and compute exactly its leading infrared divergence. We verify that this partition function obeys the transformation laws required by S-duality. This provides independent evidence in favor of S-duality in $N=4$ theories.

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