The Chiral Ring and the Periods of the Resolvent
| dc.creator | Ferrari, Frank | |
| dc.date | 2007-01-23 | |
| dc.date | 2007-03-19 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:22:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:22:24Z | |
| dc.description | The strongly coupled vacua of an N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory can be described by imposing quantization conditions on the periods of the gauge theory resolvent, or equivalently by imposing factorization conditions on the associated N=2 Seiberg-Witten curve (the so-called strong-coupling approach). We show that these conditions are equivalent to the existence of certain relations in the chiral ring, which themselves follow from the fact that the gauge group has a finite rank. This provides a conceptually very simple explanation of why and how the strongly coupled physics of N=1 theories, including fractional instanton effects, chiral symmetry breaking and confinement, can be derived from purely semi-classical calculations involving instantons only. | |
| dc.description | 17 pages, 1 figure; v2: cosmetic changes | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0701220 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0701220 | |
| dc.identifier | Nucl.Phys.B770:371-383,2007 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.02.018 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/175502 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | The Chiral Ring and the Periods of the Resolvent | |
| dc.type | text |