Supersymmetric Index Of Three-Dimensional Gauge Theory

Abstract

In N=1 super Yang-Mills theory in three spacetime dimensions, with a simple gauge group $G$ and a Chern-Simons interaction of level $k$, the supersymmetric index $\Tr (-1)^F$ can be computed by making a relation to a pure Chern-Simons theory or microscopically by an explicit Born-Oppenheimer calculation on a two-torus. The result shows that supersymmetry is unbroken if $|k|\ge h/2$ (with $h$ the dual Coxeter number of $G$) and suggests that dynamical supersymmetry breaking occurs for $|k|<h/2$. The theories with large $|k|$ are massive gauge theories whose universality class is not fully described by the standard criteria.

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