Instanton Calculus in Deformed N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theories
Abstract
We study the instanton effective action of four-dimensional deformed N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the presence of constant, self-dual Ramond-Ramond (R-R) 3-form background in type IIB superstring theory. We compare the instanton effective action with the low-energy effective action on D(-1)-branes in the D3-D(-1) system in the same background. We find that discrepancy appears at the second order of the R-R background, which was also observed in deformed N=2 theory. This discrepancy is resolved if the action of the deformed gauge theory is improved by introducing a term with coordinate-dependent gauge coupling. We obtain the same deformed instanton effective action from super Yang-Mills theory in ten-dimensional Omega-background by dimensional reduction. We also discuss another type of R-R 3-form background which corresponds to massive deformations of the instanton effective action.
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@article{arxiv.0908.4339,
title = {Instanton Calculus in Deformed N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theories},
author = {Katsushi Ito and Hiroaki Nakajima and Takuya Saka and Shin Sasaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.4339},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
33 pages, no figures, typos corrected, version to appear in JHEP