Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2011-04-11
Phys.Rev.D83:125017,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
56 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.125017
We consider non-Abelian semilocal strings (vortices, or vortex-strings) arising in N=2 supersymmetric U(N) gauge theory with Nf=N+\~N matter hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation (quarks), and a Fayet-Iliopoulos term {\xi}. We present, for the first time ever, a systematic field-theoretic derivation of the world-sheet theory for such strings, describing dynamics of both, orientational and size zero modes. Our derivation is complete in the limit, ln(L)\rightarrow \infty, where L is an infrared (IR) regulator in the transverse plane. In this limit the world-sheet theory is obtained exactly. It is presented by a so far unknown N=2 two-dimensional sigma model, to which we refer as the zn model, with or without twisted masses. Alternative formulations of the zn model are worked out: conventional and extended gauged formulations and a geometric formulation. We compare the exact metric of the zn model with that of the weighted CP(Nf-1) model conjectured by Hanany and Tong, through D-branes, as the world-sheet theory for the non-Abelian semilocal strings. The Hanany-Tong set-up has no parallel for the field-theoretic IR parameter and metrics of the weighted CP(Nf-1) model and zn model are different. Still their quasiclassical excitation spectra coincide.
Shifman Michael
Vinci Walter
Yung Alexei
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