Electric - magnetic duality in supersymmetric nonAbelian gauge theories
Nov, 199421 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 435 (1995) 129-146
e-Print:
- hep-th/9411149 [hep-th]
Report number:
- RU-94-82,
- IASSNS-HEP-94-98
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Abstract:
We demonstrate electric-magnetic duality in N=1 supersymmetric non-Abelian gauge theories in four dimensions by presenting two different gauge theories (different gauge groups and quark representations) leading to the same non-trivial long distance physics. The quarks and gluons of one theory can be interpreted as solitons (non-Abelian magnetic monopoles) of the elementary fields of the other theory. The weak coupling region of one theory is mapped to a strong coupling region of the other. When one of the theories is Higgsed by an expectation value of a squark, the other theory is confined. Massless glueballs, baryons and Abelian magnetic monopoles in the confining description are the weakly coupled elementary quarks (i.e.\ solitons of the confined quarks) in the dual Higgs description.- gauge field theory: SU(N)
- fermion: flavor
- symmetry: SU(N) x SU(N) x U(1) x U(1)
- field theory: soliton
- dependence: gauge
- duality
- renormalization group: beta function
- field theory: deformation
- potential: flat direction
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