Large-N Solution of the Heterotic Weighted Non-Linear Sigma-Model
Sep, 201032 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 82 (2010) 125023
e-Print:
- 1009.6207 [hep-th]
Report number:
- FTPI-MINN-10-26,
- UMN-TH-2918-10
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study a heterotic two-dimensional N=(0,2) gauged non-linear sigma-model whose target space is a weighted complex projective space. We consider the case with N positively and N^~=N_F - N negatively charged fields. This model is believed to give a description of the low-energy physics of a non-Abelian semi-local vortex in a four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric U(N) gauge theory with N_F > N matter hypermultiplets. The supersymmetry in the latter theory is broken down to N=1 by a mass term for the adjoint fields. We solve the model in the large-N approximation and explore a two-dimensional subset of the mass parameter space for which a discrete Z_{N-N^~} symmetry is preserved. Supersymmetry is generically broken, but it is preserved for special values of the masses where a new branch opens up and the model becomes super-conformal.- 11.27.+d
- 11.15.Bt
- 12.10.Dm
- sigma model: nonlinear
- dimension: 2
- supersymmetry: 2
- gauge field theory: U(N)
- dimension: 4
- sigma model: heterotic
- vortex: nonabelian
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