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Chiral ring along the RG flow in 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-01 v2

Abstract

We compute the Higgs branch chiral ring of a simple class of 5d theories at strong coupling. A deformation by the instanton mass implies that the chiral ring at weak coupling is renormalized by a nilpotent operator, the gaugino bilinear. Consequently, F-term equations alone do not suffice to completely determine the moduli space of vacua and perturbative non-renormalization arguments are invalidated.

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@article{arxiv.2510.15635,
  title  = {Chiral ring along the RG flow in 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$},
  author = {Amihay Hanany and Elias Van den Driessche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.15635},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v1: 33 pages, few figures. v2: minor corrections