Non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills Research Articles

The SUSY Yang–Mills plasma in a T-matrix approach

In this paper, the thermodynamic properties of [Formula: see text] supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory with an arbitrary gauge group are investigated. In the confined range, we show that identifying the bound state spectrum with a Hagedorn one coming from noncritical closed superstring theory leads to a prediction for the value of the deconfining temperature [Formula: see text] that agrees with recent lattice data. The deconfined phase is studied by resorting to a [Formula: see text]-matrix formulation of statistical mechanics in which the medium under study is seen as a gas of quasigluons and quasigluinos interacting nonperturbatively. Emphasis is put on the temperature range (1–5) [Formula: see text], where the interactions are expected to be strong enough to generate bound states. Binary bound states of gluons and gluinos are indeed found to be bound up to 1.4 [Formula: see text] for any gauge group. The equation of state is then computed numerically for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], and discussed in the case of an arbitrary gauge group. It is found to be nearly independent of the gauge group and very close to that of nonsupersymmetric Yang–Mills when normalized to the Stefan–Boltzmann pressure and expressed as a function of [Formula: see text].

Proof of ultraviolet finiteness for a planar non-supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory

This paper focuses on a three-parameter deformation of N = 4 Yang–Mills that breaks all the supersymmetry in the theory. We show that the resulting non-supersymmetric gauge theory is scale invariant, in the planar approximation, by proving that its Green functions are ultraviolet finite to all orders in light-cone perturbation theory.

Topological M-theory as unification of form theories of gravity

We introduce a notion of topological M-theory and argue that it provides a unification of form theories of gravity in various dimensions. Its classical solutions involve G_2 holonomy metrics on 7-manifolds, obtained from a topological action for a 3-form gauge field introduced by Hitchin. We show that by reductions of this 7-dimensional theory, one can classically obtain 6-dimensional topological A and B models, the self-dual sector of loop quantum gravity in four dimensions, and Chern–Simons gravity in 3 dimensions. We also find that the 7-dimensional M-theory perspective sheds some light on the fact that the topological string partition function is a wavefunction, as well as on S-duality between the A and B models. The degrees of freedom of the A and B models appear as conjugate variables in the 7-dimensional theory. Finally, from the topological M-theory perspective, we find hints of an intriguing holographic link between non-supersymmetric Yang–Mills in four dimensions and A model topological strings on twistor space.

Quantum integrability in (super) Yang–Mills theory on the light-cone

We employ the light-cone formalism to construct in the (super) Yang–Mills theories in the multi-color limit the one-loop dilatation operator acting on single trace products of chiral superfields separated by light-like distances. In the N=4 Yang–Mills theory it exhausts all Wilson operators of the maximal Lorentz spin while in nonsupersymmetric Yang–Mills theory it is restricted to the sector of maximal helicity gluonic operators. We show that the dilatation operator in all N-extended super-Yang–Mills theories is given by the same integral operator which acts on the (N+1)-dimensional superspace and is invariant under the SL(2|N) superconformal transformations. We construct the R-matrix on this space and identify the dilatation operator as the Hamiltonian of the Heisenberg SL(2|N) spin chain.

Scaling violations in Yang–Mills theories and strings in AdS5

String solitons in AdS 5 contain information of N=4 SUSY Yang–Mills theories on the boundary. Recent proposals for rotating string solitons reproduce the spectrum for anomalous dimensions of Wilson operators for the boundary theory. There are possible extensions of this duality for lower supersymmetric and even for non-supersymmetric Yang–Mills theories. We explicitly demonstrate that the supersymmetric anomalous dimensions of Wilson operators in N=0,1 Yang–Mills theories behave, for large spin J, at the two-loop level in perturbation theory, like log J. We compile the analytic one- and two-loop results for the N=0 case which is known in the literature, as well as for the N=1 case which seems to be missing.

Stable supergravity dual of nonsupersymmetric glue

We study non-supersymmetric fermion mass and condensate deformations of the AdS/CFT Correspondence. The 5 dimensional supergravity flows are lifted to a complete and remarkably simple 10 dimensional background. A brane probe analysis shows that when all the fermions have an equal mass a positive mass is generated for all six scalar fields leaving non-supersymmetric Yang Mills theory in the deep infra-red. We numerically determine the potential, produced by the background, in the Schroedinger equation relevant to the study of O^++ glueballs. The potential is a bounded well, providing evidence of stability and for a discrete, confined spectrum. The geometry can also describe the supergravity background around an (unstable) fuzzy 5-brane.

LATTICE GAUGE THEORIES AND THE AdS/CFT CORRESPONDENCE

This review is devoted to a comparison between lattice gauge theories and AdS/CFT results for the nonperturbative behavior of nonsupersymmetric Yang–Mills theories. It is intended for readers who are assumed not to be experts in LGT. For this reason the first part is devoted to a pedagogical introduction to the Lattice regularization of QCD. In the second part we discuss some basic features of the AdS/CFT correspondence and compare the results obtained in the nonsupersymmetric limit with those obtained on the lattice. We discuss in particular the behavior of the string tension and of the glueball spectrum.