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Instanton Operators and the Higgs Branch at Infinite Coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-06-19 v2

Abstract

The richness of 5d N=1\mathcal{N}=1 theories with a UV fixed point at infinite coupling is due to the existence of local disorder operators known as instanton operators. By considering the Higgs branch of SU(2)SU(2) gauge theories with Nf7N_f \leq 7 flavours at finite and infinite coupling, we write down the explicit chiral ring relations between instanton operators, the glueball superfield and mesons. Exciting phenomena appear at infinite coupling: the glueball superfield is no longer nilpotent and the classical chiral ring relations are quantum corrected by instanton operators bilinears. We also find expressions for the dressing of instanton operators of arbitrary charge. The same analysis is performed for USp(2k)USp(2k) with an antisymmetric hypermultiplet and pure SU(N)SU(N) gauge theories.

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@article{arxiv.1505.06302,
  title  = {Instanton Operators and the Higgs Branch at Infinite Coupling},
  author = {Stefano Cremonesi and Giulia Ferlito and Amihay Hanany and Noppadol Mekareeya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.06302},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

v1: 35 pages + appendices. v2: published version with several changes, 37 pages + appendices

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