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Orientifold daughter of N=4 SYM theory and double-trace running

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: We study the orientifold daughter of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills as a candidate nonsupersymmetric large-$N$ conformal field theory. In a theory with vanishing single-trace beta functions that contains scalars in the adjoint representation, conformal invariance might still be broken by renormalization of double-trace terms to leading order at large $N$. In this note we perform a diagrammatic analysis and argue that the orientifold daughter does not suffer from double-trace running. This implies an exact large-$N$ equivalence between this theory and a subsector of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills.

Source: Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.86.105032

Author: Pedro Liendo

Institution: Stony Brook University

Language: Latvian

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: Open Strings