A note on brane boxes at finite string coupling
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We consider N=1 supersymmetric SU(N_c) gauge theories, using the type IIB brane construction recently proposed by Hanany and Zaffaroni. At non-zero string coupling, we find that the bending of branes imposes consistency conditions that allow only non-anomalous gauge theories with stable vacua, i.e., N_f >= N_c, to be constructed. We find qualitative differences between the brane configurations for N_f <= 3N_c and N_f > 3N_c, corresponding to asymptotically free and infrared free theories respectively. We also discuss some properties of the brane configurations that may be relevant to constructing Seiberg's duality in this framework.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9803033,
title = {A note on brane boxes at finite string coupling},
author = {Eric G. Gimon and Martin Gremm},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9803033},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages, 4 figures, revtex