Evidence for a Non-Supersymmetric 5d CFT from Deformations of 5d $SU(2)$ SYM
High Energy Physics - Theory
2022-02-03 v2
Abstract
We study supersymmetry breaking deformations of the 5d fixed point known as , the UV completion of super-Yang-Mills. The phases of the non-supersymmetric theory can be characterized by Chern-Simons terms involving background gauge fields, allowing us to identify a phase transition at strong coupling. We propose that this may signify the emergence of a non-trivial, non-supersymmetric CFT in dimensions.
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@article{arxiv.2001.00023,
title = {Evidence for a Non-Supersymmetric 5d CFT from Deformations of 5d $SU(2)$ SYM},
author = {Pietro Benetti Genolini and Masazumi Honda and Hee-Cheol Kim and David Tong and Cumrun Vafa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.00023},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
18 pages, 2 figures. v2: minor typos fixed, references added