1999/08/09 by Oren Bergman, Amihay Hanany, Andreas Karch +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/1999/10/036
published as JHEP 9910:036,1999 · 17 pages, 1 figure, bibtex
It is shown that supersymmetry is spontaneously broken in certain three-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories, by using the s-rule in their string theory realization as brane configurations. In particular, supersymmetry is broken in N=3 supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory with gauge group SU(n) and CS coefficient k, as well as in its N=2 and N=1 deformations, when n>|k|. In addition, supersymmetry is broken in the N=1 mass deformation of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(n) and one matter multiplet when n>1. In the latter case the breaking is induced by an instanton-generated repulsive potential.