On the BPS spectrum at the root of the Higgs branch

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2012)085MaRDI QIDQ339188zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nick Dorey, Kirill Petunin

Publication date 7 November 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5595

zbMATH Keywords

extended supersymmetrysigma modelssolitons monopoles and instantonssupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We study the BPS spectrum and walls of marginal stability of the $mathcalN=2$ supersymmetric theory in four dimensions with gauge group SU(n) and $nle{N}_f<2n$ fundamental flavours at the root of the Higgs branch. The strong-coupling spectrum of this theory was conjectured in hep-th/9902134 to coincide with that of the two-dimensional supersymmetric $mathbb{CP}^{2n-N_f-1}$ sigma model. Using the Kontsevich--Soibelman wall-crossing formula, we start with the conjectured strong-coupling spectrum and extrapolate it to all other regions of the moduli space. In the weak-coupling regime, our results precisely agree with the semiclassical analysis of hep-th/9902134: in addition to the usual dyons, quarks, and $W$ bosons, if the complex masses obey a particular inequality, the resulting weak-coupling spectrum includes a tower of bound states consisting of a dyon and one or more quarks. In the special case of $mathbb{Z}_n$-symmetric masses, there are bound states with one quark for odd $n$ and no bound states for even $n$.

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