Spherical deconstruction

We present evidence that N = 1 * SUSY Yang-Mills provides a deconstruction of a six-dimensional gauge theory compactified on a two-sphere. The six-dimensional theory is a twisted compactification of N = (1, 1) SUSY Yang-Mills theory of the type considered by [J. Maldacena, C. Nufiez, Towards the large N limit of pure N = 1 super-Yang-Mills, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 588, hep-th/0008001]. In particular, we calculate the full classical spectrum of the N= 1* theory with gauge group U(N) in its Higgs vacuum. In the limit N -> infinity, we find an exact agreement with the Kaluza-Klein spectrum of the MN compactification. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.