On confinement index

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.10.018zbMATH Open1203.81116arXiv0909.3781OpenAlexW2074314422MaRDI QIDQ620666FDOQ620666

Authors: Kenichi Konishi, Yutaka Ookouchi 

Publication date: 19 January 2011

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

Abstract: The smallest integer t for which the Wilson loop W^{t} fails to exhibit area law is known as the confinement index of a given field theory. The confinement index provides us with subtle information on the vacuum properties of the system. We study the behavior of the Wilson and 't Hooft loops and compute the confinement index in a wide class of N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories. All possible electric and magnetic screenings are taken into account. The results found are consistent with the theta periodicity, and whenever such a check is available, with the factorization property of Seiberg-Witten curves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3781

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zbMATH Keywords

Wilson loops't Hooft loopsSeiberg-Witten curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

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