Higgsing and superpotential deformations of ADE superconformal theories

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.10.038zbMATH Open1192.81319arXivhep-th/0508189OpenAlexW2001316253MaRDI QIDQ877314FDOQ877314

Authors: Takuya Okuda, Yutaka Ookouchi 

Publication date: 20 April 2007

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

Abstract: We study large classes of renormalization group flows, driven by scalar expectation values or mesonic superpotential terms, away from the conformal fixed points of the 4d supersymmetric gauge theories with $ADE$-type superpotentials. The $a$-maximization procedure allows us to compute the $R$ charges and to check the $a$-theorem conjecture. For a theory obtained by Higgsing the $D_{k+2}$ theory, we use the magnetic dual description proposed by Brodie to determine the parameter region where the resulting theory is at a non-trivial conformal fixed point.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0508189

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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