Discontinuous BPS spectra in N = 2 gauge theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00009-0zbMATH Open1004.81556arXivhep-th/9510138OpenAlexW2056002062MaRDI QIDQ1907342FDOQ1907342

Måns Henningson

Publication date: 20 February 1996

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

Abstract: We consider the spectrum of BPS saturated states in $N=2$ gauge theories in four dimensions. This spectrum may be discontinuous across real codimension one submanifolds of marginal stability in the moduli space of vacua. An example, which can be treated with semiclassical methods in the weak coupling limit, is the decay of quark-soliton bound states. For a quark and a soliton of electric-magnetic charge vectors $Q$ and $Q^{p}rime$ respectively, we find that as the manifold of marginal stability is crossed, the number of soliton states changes by a factor of $2^{Qcdot{Q}^{p}rime}$, where the dot denotes the symplectic product.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9510138

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zbMATH Keywords

weak coupling limitcentral chargemarginal stability manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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