Physics NotePublished
string fluxes and monopole confinement in non-Abelian theories
M. A. C. Kneipp
2002
Publication details
- Authors
- M. A. C. Kneipp
- Type
- Physics Note
- Status
- Published
- Publication date
- 2002
- Description
- Recently we considered \( N=2 \) Super Yang-Mills with a mass breaking term and showed the existence of BPS \( Z_{k} \)-string solutions for arbitrary simple gauge groups which are spontaneously broken to non-Abelian residual gauge groups. We also calculated their string tensions exactly. In doing so, we have considered in particular the hypermultiplet in the representation of a diquark condensate. In the present work we shall analyze some of the different phases of the theory and find that the magnetic fluxes of the monopoles and \( Z_{k} \)-strings of the theory are proportional to one another, allowing for monopole confinement in one of the phase transitions of the theory. Then we will calculate the threshold length for a string to break in a new pair of monopole-antimonopole. We will further show that some of the resulting confining theories can obtained by adding a deformation term to \( N=2 \) or \( N=4 \) superconformal theories and, as such, may satisfy a gauge/string correspondence.
- Year
- 2002
- Number
- CBPF-NF-038/02
- Linked to a thesis
- No
- Linked to a grant
- No