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Gluino condensate and magnetic monopoles in supersymmetric gluodynamics
Nuclear Physics B, Volume: "B559", Issue: 1-2, Pages: 123 - 142
Swansea University Author:
Timothy Hollowood
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00434-4
Abstract
We examine supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theories on R^3*S^1 with a circle of circumference beta. These theories interpolate between four-dimensional N=1 pure gauge theory for beta=infinity and three-dimensional N=2 gauge theory for beta=0. The dominant field configurations of the R^3*S^1 SU(N) theorie...
| Published in: | Nuclear Physics B |
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| ISSN: | 05503213 |
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1999
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa28561 |
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We examine supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theories on R^3*S^1 with a circle of circumference beta. These theories interpolate between four-dimensional N=1 pure gauge theory for beta=infinity and three-dimensional N=2 gauge theory for beta=0. The dominant field configurations of the R^3*S^1 SU(N) theories in the semi-classical regime arise from N varieties of monopole. Periodic instanton configurations correspond to mixed configurations of N single monopoles of the N different types. We semi-classically evaluate the non-perturbatively generated superpotential of the R^3*S^1 theory and hence determine its vacuum structure. We then calculate monopole contributions to the gluino condensate in these theories and take the decompactification limit beta=infinity. In this way we obtain a value for the gluino condensate in the four-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory, which agrees with the previously known `weak coupling' expression but not with the `strong coupling' expression derived in the early literature solely from instanton considerations. Moreover, we discover that the superpotential gives a mass to the dual (magnetic) photon, which implies confinement of the original electric photon and disappearance of all the massless |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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1-2 |
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123 |
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142 |