S-Duality in N=4 Yang-Mills Theories with General Gauge Groups
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’t Hooft construction of free energy, electric and magnetic fluxes, and of the partition function with twisted boundary conditions, is extended to the case of N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories based on arbitrary compact, simple Lie groups. The transformation of the fluxes and the free energy under S-duality is presented. We consider the partition function of N = 4 for a particular choice of boundary conditions, and compute exactly its leading infrared divergence. We verify that this partition function obeys the transformation laws required by S-duality. This provides independent evidence in favor of S-duality in N = 4 theories. e-mail [email protected] e-mail [email protected] e-mail [email protected] e-mail [email protected]; Laboratoire Propre du CNRS UPR A.0014
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تاریخ انتشار 1995