Domain Walls in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories
| dc.creator | Kaplunovsky, Vadim S. | |
| dc.creator | Sonnenschein, Jacob | |
| dc.creator | Yankielowicz, Shimon | |
| dc.date | 1998-11-22 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T11:36:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T11:36:18Z | |
| dc.description | We study BPS saturated domain walls in the supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory. For a theory with a very light adjoint scalar (mass <~ Lambda/400) we use the perturbed N=2 Seiberg-Witten theory to calculate the actual field configuration of the domain wall. The wall has a sandwich-like five-layer structure of three distinct phases -- electric confinement, Coulomb and oblique confinement -- separated by two separate transition regions. For larger scalar masses, the three-phase structure disappears and the Seiberg-Witten theory becomes inadequate because of two major problems: First, the higher-derivative interactions between the light fields become relevant and second, both the magnetic monopole condensate and the dyon condensate show up in the same region of space, a phenomenon indescribable in terms of a local field theory. Nevertheless, we argue that the BPS saturated domain wall continues to exist in this regime and give a qualitative description of the scalar and gaugino condensates. Finally, we discuss the domain walls in MQCD and translate the BPS conditions into coupled non-linear differential equations. | |
| dc.description | 55 pages; plain TeX; source split into 50 files including all macros and 1 eps figure | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811195 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811195 | |
| dc.identifier | Nucl.Phys.B552:209-245,1999 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00203-5 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/198872 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Domain Walls in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories | |
| dc.type | text |