2000/01/18 by Nick Dorey, S. Prem Kumar · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2000/02/006
published as JHEP 0002:006,2000 · 18 pages, LaTeX, modified discussion on the gluino condensate
arxiv created 2000/01/18 · openalex publication_date 2000/02/04 · arxiv updated 2011/04/15 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We calculate the exact values of the holomorphic observables of \cal N=4 supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory deformed by mass terms which preserve \cal N=1 SUSY. These include the chiral condensates in each massive vacuum of the theory as well as the central charge which determines the tension of BPS saturated domain walls interpolating between these vacua. Several unexpected features emerge in the large-N limit, including anomalous modular properties under an SL(2,Z) duality group which acts on a complexification of the 't Hooft coupling λ=g2N/4π. We discuss our results in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence.