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Approximate BPS states

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider dimensionally reduced three-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory. Although the N=1 supersymmetry of this theory does not allow true massive Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) states, we find approximate BPS states which have non-zero masses that are almost independent of the Yang-Mills coupling constant and which are a reflection of the massless BPS states of the underlying N=1 super Yang-Mills theory. The masses of these states at large Yang-Mills coupling are exactly at the n-particle continuum thresholds. This leads to a relation between their masses at zero and large Yang-Mills coupling.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0203162,
  title  = {Approximate BPS states},
  author = {J. R. Hiller and S. S. Pinsky and U. Trittmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0203162},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure; REVTeX