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New Phenomena in SU(3) Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We show that four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric SU(n) gauge theory for n>2 necessarily contains vacua with mutually non-local massless dyons, using only analyticity of the effective action and the weak coupling limit of the moduli space of vacua. A specific example is the Z_3 point in the exact solution for SU(3), and we study its effective Lagrangian. We propose that the low-energy theory at this point is an N=2 superconformal U(1) gauge theory containing both electrically and magnetically charged massless hypermultiplets.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9505062,
  title  = {New Phenomena in SU(3) Supersymmetric Gauge Theory},
  author = {Philip C. Argyres and Michael R. Douglas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9505062},
  year   = {2009}
}

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40 pages and 11 figures in uuencoded file