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Instanton-soliton loops in 5D super-Yang-Mills

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-09-18 v2

Abstract

Soliton contributions to perturbative processes in QFT are controlled by a form factor, which depends on the soliton size. We provide a demonstration of this fact in a class of scalar theories with generic moduli spaces. We then argue that for instanton-solitons in 5D super-Yang-Mills theory the analogous form factor does not lead to faster-than-any-power suppression in the perturbative coupling. We also discuss the implications of such contributions for the UV behavior of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills in 5D and its relation to the (2,0) CFT in 6D. This is a contribution to the proceedings of the "String Math 2013'" conference and is a condensed version of results appearing in 1404.0016 and 1403.5017.

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@article{arxiv.1409.4093,
  title  = {Instanton-soliton loops in 5D super-Yang-Mills},
  author = {Constantinos Papageorgakis and Andrew B. Royston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.4093},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages; contribution to the Proceedings of String-Math 2013; v2: Comments added