Seiberg-Witten and Polyakov-like magnetic bion confinements are continuously connected

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2011)082zbMATH Open1298.81325arXiv1105.3969OpenAlexW2007730738WikidataQ59270199 ScholiaQ59270199MaRDI QIDQ467252FDOQ467252

Authors: Erich Poppitz, Mithat Ünsal 

Publication date: 3 November 2014

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

Abstract: We study four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric pure-gauge (Seiberg-Witten) theory and its N=1 mass perturbation by using compactification S**1 x R**3. It is well known that on R**4 (or at large S**1) the perturbed theory realizes confinement through monopole or dyon condensation. At small S**1, we demonstrate that confinement is induced by a generalization of Polyakov's three-dimensional instanton mechanism to a locally four-dimensional theory - the magnetic bion mechanism - which also applies to a large class of nonsupersymmetric theories. Using a large- vs. small-L Poisson duality, we show that the two mechanisms of confinement, previously thought to be distinct, are in fact continuously connected.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3969

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zbMATH Keywords

confinementduality in gauge field theoriessolitons monopoles and instantonssupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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