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New modular invariance in the Script N = 1* theory, operator mixings and supergravity singularities

Ofer Aharony1, Nick Dorey2 and S. Prem Kumar3

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We discuss the mass-deformed Script N = 4 SU(N) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (also known as the Script N = 1* theory). We analyze how the correlation functions of this theory transform under S-duality, and which correlation functions depend holomorphically on the complexified gauge coupling τ. We provide exact modular-covariant expressions for the vacuum expectation values of chiral operators in the massive vacua of the Script N = 1* theory. We exhibit a novel modular symmetry of the chiral sector of the theory in each vacuum, which acts on the coupling tilde tau = (pτ+k)/q, where p, k and q are integers which label the different vacua. In the strong coupling limit, we compare our results to the results of Polchinski and Strassler in the string theory dual of this theory, and find non-trivial agreement after operator mixings are taken into account. In particular we find that their results are consistent with the predicted modular symmetry in tilde tau. Our results imply that certain singularities found in solutions to five-dimensional gauged supergravity should not be resolvable in string theory, since there are no field theory vacua with corresponding vacuum expectation values in the large-N limit.


Keywords

Nonperturbative Effects

1/N Expansion

AdS-CFT and dS-CFT Correspondence

Supersymmetry and Duality

 

E-print Number: hep-th/0006008

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PACS

11.30.Cp Lorentz and Poincare invariance

11.25.Tq Gauge/string duality

11.30.Pb Supersymmetry

11.15.Pg Expansions for large numbers of components (e.g., 1/Nc expansions)

11.25.Hf Conformal field theory, algebraic structures

11.15.Tk Other nonperturbative techniques

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 06 ( 1 June 2000)

Received 12 June 2000, accepted for publication 16 June 2000

Published 12 July 2000



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