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Phase transitions of orientifold gauge theories at large N in finite volume
Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume: "04", Issue: 04, Pages: 087 - 087
Swansea University Author:
Timothy Hollowood
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DOI (Published version): 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/04/087
Abstract
In this paper we consider the phase structure of ``orientifold'' gauge theories--obtained from unitary supersymmetric gauge theories by replacing adjoint Majorana fermions by Dirac fermions in the symmetric or anti-symmetric representations--in finite volume S^3 x S^1. If the radius of the...
| Published in: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
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| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
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2006
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In this paper we consider the phase structure of ``orientifold'' gauge theories--obtained from unitary supersymmetric gauge theories by replacing adjoint Majorana fermions by Dirac fermions in the symmetric or anti-symmetric representations--in finite volume S^3 x S^1. If the radius of the S^3 is small the calculations can be performed at weak coupling for any value of the S^1 radius. We demonstrate that there is a confinement/de-confining type of phase transition even when the fermions have periodic (non-thermal) boundary conditions around S^1. At small radius of S^1, the theory is in a phase where charge conjugation and large non-periodic gauge transformation are spontaneously broken. But for large radius of S^1 the phase preseves these symmetries just as in the related supersymmetric |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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04 |
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087 |
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087 |