Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-02-07
JHEP 0106:057,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
74 pages, 8 figures, 3 appendices
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2001/06/057
We discuss in details a simple, purely bosonic, quantum field theory belonging to larger class of models with the following properties: a) They are asymptotically free, with a dynamically generated mass scale. b) They have a space of parameters which gets quantum corrections drastically modifying the classical singularity structure. The quantum theory can have massless solitons, Argyres-Douglas-like CFTs, exhibit confinement, etc... c) The physics can, to a large extent, be worked out in models with a large number of supersymmetries as well as in purely bosonic ones. In the former case, exact BPS mass formulas can be derived, brane constructions and embedding in M theory do exist. d) The models have an interesting 1/N expansion, and it is possible to define a double scaling limit in the sense of the ``old'' matrix models when approaching the singularities in parameter space. These properties make these theories very good toy models for four dimensional gauge theories with Higgs fields, and provide a framework where the effects of breaking supersymmetry can be explicitly studied. In our model, we work out in details the quantum space of parameters. We obtain the non-local lagrangian description of the Argyres-Douglas-like CFT, and show that it admits a strongly coupled fixed point. We also explicitly demonstrate property d). The possibility of defining such double scaling limits was not anticipated on the gauge theory side, and could be of interest to understand the gauge theory/string theory correspondence.
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