Large N_c from Seiberg-Witten curve and localization

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.06.051MaRDI QIDQ315966zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jorge G. Russo

Publication date 26 September 2016

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02958

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

Abstract: When N = 2 gauge theories are compactified on $S^4$, the large $N_c$ limit then selects a unique vacuum of the theory determined by saddle-point equations, which remains determined even in the flat-theory limit. We show that exactly the same equations can be reproduced purely from Seiberg-Witten theory, describing a vacuum where magnetically charged particles become massless, and corresponding to a specific degenerating limit of the Seiberg-Witten spectral curve where $2N_c-2$ branch points join pairwise giving $a_{Dn}=0$, $n=1,\mathrm{...},N_c-1$. We consider the specific case of N = 2 $SU(N_c)$ SQCD coupled with $2N_f$ massive fundamental flavors. We show that the theory exhibits a quantum phase transition where the critical point describes a particular Argyres-Douglas point of the Riemann surface.

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