Classifying bions in Grassmann sigma models and non-Abelian gauge theories by D-branes
Classifying bions in Grassmann sigma models and non-Abelian gauge theories by D-branes
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DOI:
10.1093/ptep/ptv009
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发表时间:
2014-09
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3.5
通讯作者:
T. Misumi;M. Nitta;N. Sakai
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作者:
T. Misumi;M. Nitta;N. Sakai
We classify bions in the Grassmann GrNF,NC sigma model (including the CP NF−1 model) on R 1 × S 1 with twisted boundary conditions. We formulate these models as UNCgauge the- ories with NF flavors in the fundamental representations. These theories can be promoted to supersymmetric gauge theories and, further, can be embedded into D-brane configurations in type-II superstring theories. We focus on specific configurations composed of multiple frac- tional instantons, termed neutral bions and charged bions, which are identified as perturbative infrared renormalons by Unsal and his collaborators (G. V. Dunne and M. Unsal, J. High Energy Phys. 1211, 170 (2012); G. V. Dunne and M. Unsal, Phys. Rev. D 87, 025015 (2013)). We show that D-brane configurations, as well as the moduli matrix, offer a very useful tool to classify all possible bion configurations in these models. In contrast to the CP N F−1 model, there exist Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) fractional instantons with topological charges greater than unity (of order NC) that cannot be reduced to a composite of an instanton and fractional instantons. As a consequence, we find that the Grassmann sigma model admits neutral bions made of BPS and anti-BPS fractional instantons, each of which has a topological charge greater (less) than one (minus one), that are not decomposable into an instanton-anti-instanton pair and the rest. The CP N F−1 model is found to have no charged bions. In contrast, we find that the Grassmann sigma model admits charged bions, for which we construct exact non-BPS solutions of the field equations.