2008/05/31 by Changhyun Ahn
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #Brane cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge group #Gauge theory #Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory #Mathematical physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Orientifold #Particle physics #Physics #Superpotential #Supersymmetric gauge theory #Supersymmetry #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217751x10047907
published as Int.J.Mod.Phys.A25:861-902,2010 · 44 pp, 6 figures; the acknowledgements corrected and to appear in IJMPA
arxiv created 2009/10/26 · openalex publication_date 2010/02/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We reexamine the [Formula: see text] supersymmetric gauge theories with product gauge groups by adding the mass terms and the quartic terms for the flavors: two-gauge group theory with fundamentals, bifundamentals and adjoints, three-gauge group theory with fundamentals and bifundamentals, and their orientifold 4-plane generalizations. By moving the branes appropriately, we obtain the corresponding dual gauge theories. By analyzing the dual superpotentials, we present the type IIA nonsupersymmetric meta-stable brane configurations.