期刊
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2015)016
关键词
Confinement; 1/N Expansion
资金
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG-88ER40388, DE-FG02-93ER-40762, DE-SC0011842]
We analyze the large N limit of adjoint QCD, an SU(N) gauge theory with N-f flavors of massless adjoint Majorana fermions, compactified on S-3 x S-1. We focus on the weakly-coupled confining small-S-3 regime. If the fermions are given periodic boundary conditions on S-1, we show that there are large cancellations between bosonic and fermionic contributions to the twisted partition function. These cancellations follow a pattern previously seen in the context of misaligned supersymmetry, and lead to the absence of Hagedorn instabilities for any S-1 size L, even though the bosonic and fermionic densities of states both have Hagedorn growth. Adjoint QCD stays in the confining phase for any L similar to N-0, explaining how it is able to enjoy large N volume independence for any L. The large N boson-fermion cancellations take place in a setting where adjoint QCD is manifestly non-supersymmetric at any finite N, and are consistent with the recent conjecture that adjoint QCD has emergent fermionic symmetries in the large N limit.
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