Sitting on the domain walls of N=1 super Yang-Mills
Sitting on the domain walls of N=1 super Yang-Mills
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坐在 N=1 个超级杨米尔斯的磁域墙上
DOI:
10.1088/1126-6708/2005/07/043
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
T. Hollowood
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作者:
A. Armoni;T. Hollowood
In pure = 1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills with gauge group SU(N), the domain walls which separate the N vacua have been argued, on the basis of string theory realizations, to be D-branes for the confining string. In a certain limit, this means that a configuration of k parallel domain walls is described by a 2+1-dimensional U(k) gauge theory. This theory has been identified by Acharya and Vafa as the U(k) gauge theory with 4 supercharges broken by a Chern-Simons term of level N in such a way that 2 supercharges are preserved. We argue further that the gauge coupling of the domain wall gauge theory goes like g2 ~ Λ/N , for large N. In the case of two domain walls, we show that the U(2) world-volume theory generates a quadratic potential on the Coulomb branch at two loops in perturbation theory which is consistent with there being a supersymmetric bound state of the two wall system. A mass gap of order Λ/N is generated around the supersymmetric minimum and we estimate the size of the bound-state to be order Λ/(N)1/2. At large distance the potential reaches a constant that can qualitatively account for the binding energy of the two walls even though stringy effects are not, strictly speaking, decoupled.