553 research outputs found
Renormalization Flow, Duality, and Supersymmetry Breaking in Some N=1 Product-Group Theories
We discuss the renormalization group flow, duality, and supersymmetry
breaking in N = 1 supersymmetric SU(N)xSU(M) gauge theories.Comment: Talk given at SUSY'96; 3 pages, LateX, style-, ps-files include
"Light from chaos" in two dimensions
We perform a Monte-Carlo study of the lattice two-dimensional gauged
XY-model. Our results confirm the strong-coupling expansion arguments that for
sufficiently small values of the spin-spin coupling the ``gauge symmetry
breaking" terms decouple and the long-distance physics is that of the unbroken
pure gauge theory. We find no evidence for the existence, conjectured earlier,
of massless states near a critical value of the spin-spin coupling. We comment
on recent remarks in the literature on the use of gauged XY-models in proposed
constructions of chiral lattice gauge theories.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking versus Run-away behavior in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
We consider Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking (DSB) in models with classical
flat directions. We analyze a number of examples, and develop a systematic
approach to determine if classical flat directions are stabilized in the full
quantum theory, or lead to run-away behavior. In some cases pseudo-flat
directions remain even at the quantum level before taking into account
corrections to the K\"ahler potential. We show that in certain limits these
corrections are calculable. In particular, we find that in the
Intriligator-Thomas and its generalizations, a potential for moduli is
generated. Moreover, there is a region of the parameter space where K\"ahler
potential corrections lead to calculable (local) minima at large but finite
distance from the origin.Comment: 13 pages, uses harvmac; discussion of run-away behavior in model is clarifie
Chiral Lattice Gauge Theories and The Strong Coupling Dynamics of a Yukawa-Higgs Model with Ginsparg-Wilson Fermions
The Yukawa-Higgs/Ginsparg-Wilson-fermion construction of chiral lattice gauge
theories described in hep-lat/0605003 uses exact lattice chirality to decouple
the massless chiral fermions from a mirror sector, whose strong dynamics is
conjectured to give cutoff-scale mass to the mirror fermions without breaking
the chiral gauge symmetry. In this paper, we study the mirror sector dynamics
of a two-dimensional chiral gauge theory in the limitof strong Yukawa and
vanishing gauge couplings, in which case it reduces to an XY model coupled to
Ginsparg-Wilson fermions. For the mirror fermions to acquire cutoff-scale mass
it is believed to be important that the XY model remain in its "high
temperature" phase, where there is no algebraic ordering--a conjecture
supported by the results of our work. We use analytic and Monte-Carlo methods
with dynamical fermions to study the scalar and fermion susceptibilities, and
the mirror fermion spectrum. Our results provide convincing evidence that the
strong dynamics does not "break" the chiral symmetry (more precisely, that the
mirror fermions do not induce algebraic ordering in two-dimensions), and that
the mirror fermions decouple from the infrared physics.Comment: 44 pages, 18 figures; v2: clarification of fermion operators,
discussion of recent related work
Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking
I review the motivation for dynamical supersymmetry breaking, the various
mechanisms which have been discovered, and the prospects for model building.Comment: 5 pages. invited talk given at SUSY97, May27-31, 1997, University of
Pennsylvani
Warp Factors and Extended Sources in Two Transverse Dimensions
We study the solutions of the Einstein equations in (d+2)-dimensions,
describing parallel p-branes (p=d-1) in a space with two transverse dimensions
of positive gaussian curvature. These solutions generalize the solutions of
Deser and Jackiw of point particle sources in (2+1)-dimensional gravity with
cosmological constant. Determination of the metric is reduced to finding the
roots of a simple algebraic equation. These roots also determine the nontrivial
"warp factors" of the metric at the positions of the branes. We discuss the
possible role of these solutions and the importance of "warp factors" in the
context of the large extra dimensions scenario.Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX; References and acknowledgments adde
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