The Effective Potential of the N=0* Yang-Mills Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v3
Abstract
We study the \N=4 SYM theory with SU(N) gauge group in the large N limit, deformed by giving equal mass to the four adjoint fermions. With this modification, a potential is dynamically generated for the six scalars in the theory, \phi^i. We show that the resulting theory is stable (perturbatively in the 't Hooft coupling), and that there are some indications that <\phi>=0 is the vacuum of the theory. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we compare the results to the corresponding supergravity computation, i.e. brane probing a deformed AdS_5 x S^5 background, and we find qualitative agreement.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0402215,
title = {The Effective Potential of the N=0* Yang-Mills Theory},
author = {Assaf Patir and Dori Reichmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0402215},
year = {2008}
}
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12 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in JHEP