Journal
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)082
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Confinement; Supersymmetric gauge theory; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- National Science and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC)
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We study four-dimensional N = 2 supersymmetric pure-gauge (Seiberg-Witten) theory and its N = 1 mass perturbation by using compactification on S-1 x R-3. It is well known that on R-4 (or at large S-1 size L) the perturbed theory realizes confinement through monopole or dyon condensation. At small S-1, we demonstrate that confinement is induced by a generalization of Polyakov's three-dimensional instanton mechanism to a locally four-dimensional theory-the magnetic bion mechanism-which also applies to a large class of nonsupersymmetric theories. Using a large-vs. small-L Poisson duality, we show that the two mechanisms of confinement, previously thought to be distinct, are in fact continuously connected.
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