Off-shell M5 brane, perturbed Seiberg–Witten theory, and metastable vacua
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Off-shell M5 Brane, Perturbed Seiberg-Witten Theory, and Metastable Vacua
We demonstrate that, in an appropriate limit, the off-shell M5-brane worldvolume action effectively captures the scalar potential of Seiberg-Witten theory perturbed by a small super-potential and, consequently, any nonsupersymmetric vacua that it describes. This happens in a similar manner to the emergence from M5's of the scalar potential describing certain type IIB flux configurations [1]. We...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nuclear Physics B
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0550-3213
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.05.005