The Römelsberger index, Berkooz deconfinement, and infinite families of Seiberg duals

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2012)051zbMATH Open1348.81392arXiv1112.2996WikidataQ125641368 ScholiaQ125641368MaRDI QIDQ339182FDOQ339182

Authors: Matthew Sudano 

Publication date: 7 November 2016

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

Abstract: Romelsberger's index has been argued to be an RG-invariant and, therefore, Seiberg-duality-invariant object that counts protected operators in the IR SCFT of an N=1 theory. These claims have so far passed all tests. In fact, it remains possible that this index is a perfect discriminant of duality. The investigation presented here bolsters such optimism. It is shown that the conditions of total ellipticity, which are needed for the mathematical manifestation of duality, are equivalent to the conditions ensuring non-anomalous gauge and flavor symmetries and the matching of (most) 't Hooft anomalies. Further insights are gained from an analysis of recent results by Craig, et al. It is shown that a non-perturbative resolution of an apparent mismatch of global symmetries is automatically accounted for in the index. It is then shown that through an intricate series of dynamical steps, the index not only remains fixed, but the only integral relation needed is the one that gives the "primitive" Seiberg dualities, perhaps hinting that the symmetry at the core is fundamental rather than incidental.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2996

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zbMATH Keywords

anomalies in field and string theoriesnonperturbative effectssupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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