TY - JOUR
T1 - Brane configurations and 4D field theory dualities
AU - Brandhuber, A.
AU - Sonnenschein, J.
AU - Theisen, S.
AU - Yankielowicz, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
‘Work supported in part by the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, by GIF - the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research, and by the Israel Science Foundation. * Work supported in part by GIF - the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and by the European Commission TMR programme ERBFMRX-CT96-0045, in which ST. is associated to HU-Berlin.
PY - 1997/9/29
Y1 - 1997/9/29
N2 - We study brane configurations which correspond to field theories in four dimension with N = 2 and N = 1 supersymmetry. In particular we discuss brane motions that translate to Seiberg's duality in N = 1 models recently studied by Elitzur, Giveon and Kutasov. We investigate, using the brane picture, the moduli spaces of the dual theories. Deformations of these models like mass terms and vacuum expectation values of scalar fields can be identified with positions of branes. The map of these deformations between the electric and dual magnetic theories is clarified. The models we study reproduce known field theory results and we provide an example of new dual pairs with N = 1 supersymmetry. Possible relations between brane configurations and non-supersymmetric field theories are discussed.
AB - We study brane configurations which correspond to field theories in four dimension with N = 2 and N = 1 supersymmetry. In particular we discuss brane motions that translate to Seiberg's duality in N = 1 models recently studied by Elitzur, Giveon and Kutasov. We investigate, using the brane picture, the moduli spaces of the dual theories. Deformations of these models like mass terms and vacuum expectation values of scalar fields can be identified with positions of branes. The map of these deformations between the electric and dual magnetic theories is clarified. The models we study reproduce known field theory results and we provide an example of new dual pairs with N = 1 supersymmetry. Possible relations between brane configurations and non-supersymmetric field theories are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00414-8
DO - 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00414-8
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AN - SCOPUS:0031590220
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 502
SP - 125
EP - 148
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
IS - 1-2
ER -