Anti-de Sitter space and the center of the gauge group

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/1998/11/018zbMATH Open0949.81028arXivhep-th/9807205OpenAlexW2035954524MaRDI QIDQ1588166FDOQ1588166

Authors: Ofer Aharony, Edward Witten 

Publication date: 3 December 2000

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

Abstract: Upon compactification on a circle, SU(N) gauge theory with all fields in the adjoint representation acquires a $Z_N$ global symmetry because the center of the gauge group is $Z_N$. For N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, we show how this $Z_N$ "topological symmetry" arises in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, and why the symmetry group is $Z_N$ rather than U(1). This provides a test of the AdS/CFT correspondence for finite N. If the theory is formulated on $R^{3}imes{S}^1$ with anti-periodic boundary conditions for fermions around the $S^1$, the topological symmetry is spontaneously broken; we show that the domain walls are D-strings, and hence that flux tubes associated with magnetic confinement can end on the domain walls associated with the topological symmetry. For the (0,2) $A_{N-1}$ superconformal field theory in six dimensions, we demonstrate an analogous phenomenon: a $Z_N$ global symmetry group arises if this theory is compactified on a Riemann surface. In this case, the domain walls are M-theory membranes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9807205

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetry groupsuper Yang-Mills theorytopological symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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