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Spectral sum rules for confining large-N theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-06-21 v2

Abstract

We consider asymptotically-free four-dimensional large-NN gauge theories with massive fermionic and bosonic adjoint matter fields, compactified on squashed three-spheres, and examine their regularized large-NN confined-phase spectral sums. The analysis is done in the limit of vanishing 't Hooft coupling, which is justified by taking the size of the compactification manifold to be small compared to the inverse strong scale Λ1\Lambda^{-1}. Our results motivate us to conjecture some universal spectral sum rules for these large NN gauge theories.

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@article{arxiv.1512.09119,
  title  = {Spectral sum rules for confining large-N theories},
  author = {Aleksey Cherman and David A. McGady and Masahito Yamazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.09119},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

25 pages, 2 figures. v2: fixed typos, added references, and some minor improvements to discussion

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