Adding flavor to Dijkgraaf-Vafa
Abstract
We study matrix models related via the correspondence of Dijkgraaf and Vafa to supersymmetric gauge theories with matter in the fundamental. As in flavorless examples, measure factors of the matrix integral reproduce information about R-symmetry violation in the field theory. The models, studied previously as models of open strings, exhibit a large-M phase transition as the number of flavors is varied. This is the matrix model's manifestation of the end of asymptotic freedom. Using the relation to a quiver gauge theory, we extract the effective glueball superpotential and Seiberg-Witten curve from the matrix model.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0211009,
title = {Adding flavor to Dijkgraaf-Vafa},
author = {John McGreevy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0211009},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, harvmac; improved analysis of the healing of cuts, added calculation of superpotential, improved referencing and notation