Theoretical Developments in SUSY

Abstract

In this talk I review three topics: (i) Heterotic strings from N=1 gauge theories; (ii) Planar equivalence and emergent center symmetry in QCD-like theories; (iii) Exact result for gluon scattering amplitudes in N=4 (dual conformality).

20 pages, 3 figures; Invited Talk at PLANCK 2008, Barcelona, Spain, 19-23 May, 2008

References in corpus (13)

• MHV Amplitudes in N=4 Super Yang-Mills and Wilson Loops
• Hexagon Wilson loop = six-gluon MHV amplitude
• The Two-Loop Six-Gluon MHV Amplitude in Maximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
• The hexagon Wilson loop and the BDS ansatz for the six-gluon amplitude
• Global Structure of Moduli Space for BPS Walls
• Patterns of Gauge Mediation in Metastable SUSY Breaking
• The Quantum Dynamics of Heterotic Vortex Strings
• Phases of $\Nc= \infty$ QCD-like gauge theories on $S^3\times S^1$ and nonperturbative orbifold-orientifold equivalences
• Planar Limit of Orientifold Field Theories and Emergent Center Symmetry
• Lectures on Scattering Amplitudes via AdS/CFT
• A note on C-Parity Conservation and the Validity of Orientifold Planar Equivalence
• Gluon scattering in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory from weak to strong coupling
• Some Theoretical Developments in SUSY