TY - JOUR
T1 - Pouliot type duality via a-maximization
AU - Kawano, Teruhiko
AU - Ookouchi, Yutaka
AU - Tachikawa, Yuji
AU - Yagi, Futoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to acknowledge discussions with Masahiro Ibe, Takuya Okuda, and Yuuki Shinbara and to especially thank Yu Nakayama for helpful discussions on a-maximization and quantum moduli spaces. We are also grateful to Kenneth Intriligator for kind correspondence. T.K. and Y.O. would like to thank the participants of the Summer Institute String Theory 2005 at Sapporo, Japan for discussions. Y.O. and F.Y. thank the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University. Discussions during the YITP workshop YITP-W-05-08 on String Theory and Quantum Field Theory were useful to complete this work. The research of T.K. was supported in part by the Grants-in-Aid (#16740133) and (#16081206) from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan. The research of Y.O. was supported in part by JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists. The research of Y.T. was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY99-07949 and in part by JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists.
PY - 2006/2/13
Y1 - 2006/2/13
N2 - We study four-dimensional N = 1 Spin (10) gauge theory with a single spinor and NQ vectors at the superconformal fixed point via the electric-magnetic duality and a-maximization. When gauge invariant chiral primary operators hit the unitarity bounds, we find that the theory with no superpotential is identical to the one with some superpotential at the infrared fixed point. The auxiliary field method in the electric theory offers a satisfying description of the infrared fixed point, which is consistent with the better picture in the magnetic theory. In particular, it gives a clear description of the emergence of new massless degrees of freedom in the electric theory.
AB - We study four-dimensional N = 1 Spin (10) gauge theory with a single spinor and NQ vectors at the superconformal fixed point via the electric-magnetic duality and a-maximization. When gauge invariant chiral primary operators hit the unitarity bounds, we find that the theory with no superpotential is identical to the one with some superpotential at the infrared fixed point. The auxiliary field method in the electric theory offers a satisfying description of the infrared fixed point, which is consistent with the better picture in the magnetic theory. In particular, it gives a clear description of the emergence of new massless degrees of freedom in the electric theory.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.11.024
DO - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.11.024
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:30044445351
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 735
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
IS - 1-3
ER -