Abstract
We analyze the phases of supersymmetric chiral gauge theories with an antisymmetric tensor and (anti)fundamental avors, in the presence of a classically marginal superpotential deformation. Varying the number of avors that appear in the superpotential reveals rich infrared chiral dynamics and novel dualities. The dualities are characterized by an infinite family of magnetic duals with arbitrarily large gauge groups describing the same fixed point, correlated with arbitrarily large classical global symmetries that are truncated nonperturbatively. At the origin of moduli space, these theories exhibit a phase with confinement and chiral symmetry breaking, an interacting nonabelian Coulomb phase, and phases where an interacting sector coexists with a sector that either s-confines or is in a free magnetic phase. Properties of these intriguing \mixed phases" are studied in detail using duality and a-maximization, and the presence of superpotential interactions provides further insights into their formation.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 74 |
| Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | 2011 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2011 |
Keywords
- Supersymmetric Effective Theories
- Supersymmetry and Duality
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