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On Exact Superpotentials, Free Energies and Matrix Models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v3

Abstract

We discuss exact results for the full nonperturbative effective superpotentials of four dimensional N=1\mathcal{N}=1 supersymmetric U(N) gauge theories with additional chiral superfield in the adjoint representation and the free energies of the related zero dimensional bosonic matrix models with polynomial potentials in the planar limit using the Dijkgraaf-Vafa matrix model prescription and integrating in and out. The exact effective superpotentials are produced including the leading Veneziano-Yankielowicz term directly from the matrix models. We also discuss how to use integrating in and out as a tool to do random matrix integrals in the large NN limit.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0401101,
  title  = {On Exact Superpotentials, Free Energies and Matrix Models},
  author = {Girma Hailu and Howard Georgi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0401101},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages; v2: typos corrected; v3: the scheme for computing exact superpotentials including both the Veneziano-Yankielowicz term and all instanton corrections directly using matrix models is emphasized and references added, to appear in JHEP

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