A Chiral SU(n) gauge theory and its nonchiral spin(8) dual

Oct, 1995
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 370 (1996) 76-82
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Report number:
  • RU-95-67

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We study supersymmetric SU ( N - 4) gauge theories with a symmetric tensor and N antifundamental representations. The theory with W = 0 has a dual description in terms of a non-chiral Spin(8) theory with one spinor and N vectors. This duality flows to the SO ( N ) duality of Seiberg and to a duality proposed by one of us. It also flows to dualities for a number of Spin( m ) theories, m ≤ 8. For N = 6, when an N = 2 SUSY superpotential is added, the singularities of Seiberg and Witten are recovered. For N ≤ 6, a mass for the spinor generates the branches of SO (8) theories found by Intriligator and Seiberg. Other phenomena include a classical constraint mapped to an anomaly equation under duality and an intricate consistency check on the renormalization group flow.
Note:
  • 13 pages, uses harvmac
  • gauge field theory: SU(N)
  • gauge field theory: chiral
  • supersymmetry
  • duality
  • gauge field theory: Spin(8)
  • Spin(8): gauge field theory
  • anomaly
  • geometry: algebra