Inside an enhancon: Monopoles and dual Yang-Mills theory

Oct, 2001
28 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 639 (2002) 343-369
e-Print:
Report number:
  • HUTP-01-A047,
  • YITP-SB-01-55

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Abstract:
In this paper we study wrapped brane configurations that give rise to three dimensional pure Yang-Mills theory with eight supercharges. The corresponding supergravity solution is singular and it was conjectured that the singularity is removed by an enhancon mechanism. Instead, we incorporate non-perturbative gauge fields into supergravity and find a smooth solution for these configurations. Along the way we derive a non-abelian supergravity Lagrangian for type IIA on K3 and explicit formulae for the toroidal reduction of the heterotic string with non-abelian gauge fields. We proceed to analyse the duality with Yang-Mills theory and find that the dual background is a monopole configuration in little string theory.
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • dimension: 3
  • duality
  • magnetic monopole
  • membrane model
  • supergravity
  • string model: heterotic
  • enhancon
  • dimensional reduction: torus