S-Duality, Deconstruction and Confinement for a Marginal Deformation ofN=4 SUSY Yang-Mills

Nick Dorey
2004 Journal of High Energy Physics  
We study an exactly marginal deformation of N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills with gauge group U(N) using field theory and string theory methods. The classical theory has a Higgs branch for rational values of the deformation parameter. We argue that the quantum theory also has an S-dual confining branch which cannot be seen classically. The low-energy effective theory on these branches is a six-dimensional non-commutative gauge theory with sixteen supercharges. Confinement of magnetic and electric charges,
more » ... the Higgs and confining branches respectively, occurs due to the formation of BPS-saturated strings in the low energy theory. The results also suggest a new way of deconstructing Little String Theory as a large-N limit of a confining gauge theory in four dimensions.
doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/08/043 fatcat:pnahcj4serckzeweljxbx5zwgu