Supersymmetry Breaking Vacua from M Theory Fivebranes
Abstract
We consider intersecting brane configurations realizing N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories broken to N=1 by multitrace superpotentials, and softly to N=0. We analyze, in the framework of M5-brane wrapping a curve, the supersymmetric vacua and the analogs of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking and soft supersymmetry breaking in gauge theories. We show that the M5-brane does not exhibit the analog of metastable spontaneous supersymmetry breaking, and does not have non-holomorphic minimal volume curves with holomorphic boundary conditions. However, we find that any point in the N=2 moduli space can be rotated to a non-holomorphic minimal volume curve, whose boundary conditions break supersymmetry. We interpret these as the analogs of soft supersymmetry breaking vacua in the gauge theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0709.2491,
title = {Supersymmetry Breaking Vacua from M Theory Fivebranes},
author = {Luca Mazzucato and Yaron Oz and Shimon Yankielowicz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.2491},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
32 pages, 8 figures, harvmac; v2: corrections in eq. 3.6 and in section 6, reference added