Self-dual effective action of N = 4 SYM revisited

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2004-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410128v3

JHEP 0503:008,2005

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

0+37 pages, 1 figure, latex; V2: references, comments added; V3: comments, references added

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/008

More evidence is provided for the conjectured correspondence between the D3-brane action in AdS_5 x S^5 and the low-energy effective action for N = 4 SU(N) SYM on its Coulomb branch, where the gauge group SU(N) is spontaneously broken to SU(N-1) x U(1) and the dynamics is described by a single N = 2 vector multiplet corresponding to the U(1) factor of the unbroken group. Using an off-shell formulation for N = 4 SYM in N = 2 harmonic superspace, within the background-field quantization scheme we compute the two-loop quantum correction to a holomorphic sector of the effective action, which is a supersymmetric completion of interactions of the form \Omega ((F^+)^2 |Y|^{-4}) (F^+)^2(F^-)^2 |Y|^{-4}, with F^\pm the (anti) self-dual components of the U(1) gauge field strength, and Y the complex scalar belonging to the vector multiplet. In the one-loop approximation, \Omega was shown in hep-th/9911221 to be constant. It is demonstrated in the present paper that \Omega \propto (F^+)^2 |Y|^{-4} at the two-loop order. The corresponding coefficient proves to agree with the F^6 coefficient in the D3-brane action, after implementing the nonlinear field redefinition which was sketched in hep-th/9810152 and which relates the N = 2 vector multiplet component fields with those living on the D3-brane. In the approximation considered, our results are consistent with the conjecture of hep-th/9810152 that the N = 4 SYM effective action is self-dual under N = 2 superfield Legendre transformation, and also with the stronger conjecture of hep-th/0001068 that it is self-dual under supersymmetric U(1) duality rotations.

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