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An Elliptic Superpotential for Softly Broken N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

An exact superpotential is derived for the N=1 theories which arise as massive deformations of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. The superpotential of the SU(N) theory formulated on R^{3}\times S^{1} is shown to coincide with the complexified potential of the N-body elliptic Calogero-Moser Hamiltonian. This superpotential reproduces the vacuum structure predicted by Donagi and Witten for the corresponding four-dimensional theory and also transforms covariantly under the S-duality group of N=4 SYM. The analysis yields exact formulae with interesting modular properties for the condensates of gauge-invariant chiral operators in the four-dimensional theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9906011,
  title  = {An Elliptic Superpotential for Softly Broken N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory},
  author = {N. Dorey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9906011},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

34 pages, LaTeX. Minor corrections and an additional reference