On supersymmetry breaking and the Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We investigate the Dijkgraaf-Vafa proposal when supersymmetry is broken. We consider U(N) SYM with chiral adjoint matter where the coupling constants in the tree-level superpotential are promoted to chiral spurions. The holomorphic part of the low-energy glueball superpotential can still be analyzed. We compute the holomorphic supersymmetry breaking contributions using methods of the geometry underlying the N=1 effective gauge theory viewed as a Whitham system. We also study the change in the effective glueball superpotential using perturbative supergraph techniques in the presence of spurions.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0601078,
title = {On supersymmetry breaking and the Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture},
author = {L. Girardello and A. Mariotti and G. Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0601078},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
24 pages, LaTeX; minor changes, one reference added, version to appear in JHEP