Duality of nonsupersymmetric largeNgauge theories
- 23 April 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 59 (10) , 105018
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.59.105018
Abstract
Starting from Seiberg’s electric-magnetic duality for supersymmetric QCD, we construct dual pairs of nonsupersymmetric gauge theories. This is accomplished by first taking the large N limit of supersymmetric QCD and its dual partner and then performing a special “orbifold projection” recently introduced by Kachru and Silverstein. We argue that in the large N limit the two projected theories remain dual. The nonsupersymmetric gauge theories which can be studied in this fashion have nonsupersymmetric field content, chiral fermions, and exactly massless scalar matter.Keywords
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