Cascades with Adjoint Matter: Adjoint Transitions
| Autor: | Simic, Dusan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | JHEP 1105:104,2011 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)104 |
| Popis: | A large class of duality cascades based on quivers arising from non-isolated singularities enjoy adjoint transitions - a phenomenon which occurs when the gauge coupling of a node possessing adjoint matter is driven to strong coupling in a manner resulting in a reduction of rank in the non-Abelian part of the gauge group and a subsequent flow to weaker coupling. We describe adjoint transitions in a simple family of cascades based on a Z2-orbifold of the conifold using field theory. We show that they are dual to Higgsing and produce varying numbers of U(1) factors, moduli, and monopoles in a manner which we calculate. This realizes a large family of cascades which proceed through Seiberg duality and Higgsing. We briefly describe the supergravity limit of our analysis, as well as a prescription for treating more general theories. A special role is played by N=2 SQCD. Our results suggest that additional light fields are typically generated when UV completing certain constructions of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking into cascades, potentially leading to instabilities. Comment: 29 pages, a few typos fixed, improved discussion, added figure; now there is 1 figure |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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