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O'Raifeartaigh models with spontaneous R-symmetry breaking
Luca Ferretti
O'Raifeartaigh models with general R-charge assignments can have vacua where both supersymmetry and R-symmetry are spontaneously broken. Most of these vacua are metastable because…
Non-Abelian vortices and monopoles in SO(N) theories
Luca Ferretti, Sven Bjarke Gudnason, Kenichi Konishi
Non-Abelian BPS vortex solutions are constructed in N=2 theories with gauge groups SO(N)\times U(1). The model has N_f flavors of chiral multiplets in the vector representation of…
R-symmetry breaking, runaway directions and global symmetries in O'Raifeartaigh models
Luca Ferretti
We discuss O'Raifeartaigh models with general R-charge assignments, introduced by Shih to break R-symmetry spontaneously. We argue that most of these models have runaway directions…
Non-Abelian duality from vortex moduli: a dual model of color-confinement
Minoru Eto, Luca Ferretti, Kenichi Konishi +5
It is argued that the dual transformation of non-Abelian monopoles occurring in a system with gauge symmetry breaking G -> H is to be defined by setting the low-energy H system in…
Duality and confinement in SO(N) gauge theories
L. Ferretti, K. Konishi
The presence of magnetic monopole like excitations of nonabelian varieties is one of the subtlest consequences of spontaneously broken gauge symmetries. Important hints about their…