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Vector Mesons and an Interpretation of Seiberg Duality
Zohar Komargodski
We interpret the dynamics of Supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) in terms of ideas familiar from the hadronic world. Some mysterious properties of the supersymmetric theory, such as the emer…
Comments on scaling limits of 4d N=2 theories
Davide Gaiotto, Nathan Seiberg, Yuji Tachikawa
We revisit the study of the maximally singular point in the Coulomb branch of 4d N=2 SU(N) gauge theory with N_f=2n flavors for N_f<2N. When n >= 2, we find that the low-energy phy…
Axions in the Landscape and String Theory
Michael Dine, Guido Festuccia, John Kehayias +1
While axions seem ubiquitous in critical string theories, whether they might survive in any string theoretic description of nature is a difficult question. With some mild assumptio…
Symmetries and Strings in Field Theory and Gravity
Tom Banks, Nathan Seiberg
We discuss aspects of global and gauged symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity, focusing on discrete gauge symmetries. An effective Lagrangian description of …
Dynamical tachyons on fuzzy spheres
David Berenstein, Diego Trancanelli
We study the spectrum of off-diagonal fluctuations between displaced fuzzy spheres in the BMN plane wave matrix model. The displacement is along the plane of the fuzzy spheres. We…
T-Branes and Monodromy
Sergio Cecotti, Clay Cordova, Jonathan J. Heckman +1
We introduce T-branes, or "triangular branes," which are novel non-abelian bound states of branes characterized by the condition that on some loci, their matrix of normal deformati…