Strong coupling dynamics of the Higgs branch: rolling a Higgs by collapsing an instanton

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.09.018zbMATH Open1192.81318arXivhep-th/0412074OpenAlexW2124043275MaRDI QIDQ877294FDOQ877294

Authors: Zachary Guralnik 

Publication date: 20 April 2007

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

Abstract: We construct the dual supergravity description of strongly coupled, large $N$, eight-supercharge gauge theories with fundamental hypermultiplets at points on the mixed Coulomb-Higgs branch. With certain assumptions about unknown couplings of D-branes to supergravity, this construction gives the correct metric on the hypermultiplet (Higgs-branch) component the moduli space, which decouples from the vector multiplet (Coulomb-branch) moduli. Going beyond the geodesic approximation, we find that the dynamics of a hypermultiplet VEV rolling towards a singularity on the Higgs component of the moduli space is sensitive to the vector multiplet moduli. The dual description of the approach to the singularity involves collapsing ``instantons of a non-Abelian Dirac-Born-Infeld theory in a curved background. In general, we find a decelerating approach to the singularity, although the manner of deceleration depends on the vector multiplet moduli. Upon introducing a potential on the Higgs branch of a four dimensional $calN=2$ theory coupled to gravity, this deceleration mechanism might lead to interesting inflating cosmologies analogous those studied recently by Alishahiha, Silverstein and Tong.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412074

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50)

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