Supersymmetric index in four-dimensional gauge theories

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2001.V5.N5.A1zbMATH Open1019.81040arXivhep-th/0006010MaRDI QIDQ700571FDOQ700571

Edward Witten

Publication date: 22 October 2002

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is devoted to a systematic discussion of the supersymmetric index Tr (-1)^F for the minimal supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory -- with any simple gauge group G -- primarily in four spacetime dimensions. The index has refinements that probe confinement and oblique confinement and the possible spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry and of global symmetries, such as charge conjugation, that are derived from outer automorphisms of the gauge group. Predictions for the index and its refinements are obtained on the basis of standard hypotheses about the infrared behavior of gauge theories. The predictions are confirmed via microscopic calculations which involve a Born-Oppenheimer computation of the spectrum as well as mathematical formulas involving triples of commuting elements of G and the Chern-Simons invariants of flat bundles on the three-torus.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0006010

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zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons invariantssupersymmetric gauge field theoryinfrared behaviorBorn-Oppenheimer computationbreaking of chiral symmetrymicroscopic calculationsrefinements of the index to probe confinementzero energy states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators (58J99)

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