Confinement and duality in supersymmetric gauge theories
arXiv:1309.5299
Abstract
In this thesis we review the Seiberg-Witten solution of four dimensional N=2 gauge theories, the six-dimensional construction of these models recently proposed by Gaiotto and the BPS quiver technique for the determination of the BPS spectrum of N=2 theories. We then study how these recent developments allow to better understand nonperturbative aspects such as confinement and dynamical symmetry breaking in the N=1 theories obtained starting from N=2 SQCD and adding a mass term for the chiral multiplet in the adjoint of the gauge group. We find an unusual realization of the 't Hooft-Mandelstam mechanism, in which confinement and dynamical symmetry breaking are due to the condensation of different degrees of freedom.
PhD thesis (Advisor: Kenichi Konishi). 196 pages, 15 figures
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