A note on S-duality for the N = 1* Sp(2n) and SO(2n+1) super-Yang-Mills theories
Niclas Wyllard; Niclas Wyllard; Department of Fundamental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
Журнал:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Дата:
2007-06-01
Аннотация:
We study the N = 1* supersymmetric gauge theories with gauge groups Sp(2n) and SO(2n+1). These theories are obtained from the corresponding N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories via a mass deformation. We show that the number of quantum vacua in the Sp(2n) theory is equal to the number of quantum vacua in the SO(2n+1) theory. This constitutes non-trivial support for S-duality between these theories. The verification of the equality of the number of quantum vacua involves a rather esoteric identity due to Ramanujan.
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