Strong-Coupling Phases of Planar N=2* Super-Yang-Mills Theory

Abstract

The N=2* theory (mass deformation of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills) undergoes an infinite number of quantum phase transitions in the large-N limit. The phase structure and critical behavior can be analyzed with the help of supersymmetric localization, which reduces the problem to an effective matrix model. We study its strong-coupling phase.

28 pages, 6 figures, prepared for special issue of Theor. Math. Phys. in honor of A.A. Slavnov's 75th birthday; v2: misprints corrected; v3: expression (5.7) for the critical exponent corrected

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