Branes and Supersymmetry Breaking in Three Dimensional Gauge Theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-02-03 v1
Abstract
It is shown that supersymmetry is spontaneously broken in certain three-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories, by using the s-rule in their string theory realization as brane configurations. In particular, supersymmetry is broken in N=3 supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory with gauge group SU(n) and CS coefficient k, as well as in its N=2 and N=1 deformations, when n>|k|. In addition, supersymmetry is broken in the N=1 mass deformation of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(n) and one matter multiplet when n>1. In the latter case the breaking is induced by an instanton-generated repulsive potential.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9908075,
title = {Branes and Supersymmetry Breaking in Three Dimensional Gauge Theories},
author = {Oren Bergman and Amihay Hanany and Andreas Karch and Barak Kol},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9908075},
year = {2010}
}
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17 pages, 1 figure, bibtex