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Effective superpotential for U(N) with antisymmetric matter

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We consider an N=1 U(N) gauge theory with matter in the antisymmetric representation and its conjugate, with a tree level superpotential containing at least quartic interactions for these fields. We obtain the effective glueball superpotential in the classically unbroken case, and show that it has a non-trivial N-dependence which does not factorize. We also recover additional contributions starting at order S^N from the dynamics of Sp(0) factors. This can also be understood by a precise map of this theory to an Sp(2N-2) gauge theory with antisymmetric matter.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0406253,
  title  = {Effective superpotential for U(N) with antisymmetric matter},
  author = {Riccardo Argurio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0406253},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

22 pages. v2: comment (and a reference) added at the end of section 2 on low rank cases; minor typos corrected. v3: 2 footnotes added with additional clarifications; version to appear in journal

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