Refining the proof of planar equivalence

Dec, 2004
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 71 (2005) 045015
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-PH-TH-2004-248,
  • SWAT-421,
  • FTPI-MINN-04-33,
  • UMN-TH-2320-04

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Abstract:
We outline a full non-perturbative proof of planar (large-N) equivalence between bosonic correlators in a theory with Majorana fermions in the adjoint representation and one with Dirac fermions in the two-index (anti)symmetric representation. In a particular case (one flavor), this reduces to our previous result - planar equivalence between super-Yang--Mills theory and a non-supersymmetric ``orientifold field theory.'' The latter theory becomes one-flavor massless QCD at N=3.
  • 11.15.Pg
  • fermion: Majorana
  • fermion: Dirac
  • gauge field theory: SU(N)
  • expansion 1/N