From Super-Yang-Mills Theory to QCD: Planar Equivalence and its Implications
Abstract
We review and extend our recent work on the planar (large N) equivalence between gauge theories with varying degree of supersymmetry. The main emphasis is made on the planar equivalence between N=1 gluodynamics (super-Yang-Mills theory) and a non-supersymmetric "orientifold field theory." We outline an "orientifold" large N expansion, analyze its possible phenomenological consequences in one-flavor massless QCD, and make a first attempt at extending the correspondence to three massless flavors. An analytic calculation of the quark condensate in one-flavor QCD starting from the gluino condensate in N=1 gluodynamics is thoroughly discussed. We also comment on a planar equivalence involving N=2 supersymmetry, on "chiral rings" in non-supersymmetric theories, and on the origin of planar equivalence from an underlying, non-tachyonic type-0 string theory. Finally, possible further directions of investigation, such as the gauge/gravity correspondence in large-N orientifold field theory, are briefly discussed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0403071,
title = {From Super-Yang-Mills Theory to QCD: Planar Equivalence and its Implications},
author = {A. Armoni and M. Shifman and G. Veneziano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0403071},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
106 pages, LaTex. 15 figures. v2:minor changes, refs. added. To be published in the Ian Kogan Memorial Collection "From Fields to Strings: Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics," World Scientific, 2004