Zero-energy states of N = 4 SYM on T3: S-duality and the mapping class group
Creators
- 1. Department of Fundamental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Goeteborg (Sweden)
Description
We continue our studies of the low-energy spectrum of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory on a spatial three-torus. In two previous papers, we computed the spectrum of normalizable zero-energy states for all choices of gauge group and all values of the electric and magnetic 't Hooft fluxes, and checked its invariance under the SL2(Z) S-duality group. In this paper, we refine the analysis by also decomposing the space of bound states into irreducible unitary representations of the SL3(Z) mapping class group of the three-torus. We perform a detailed study of the S-dual pairs of theories with gauge groups Spin(2n+1) and Sp(2n). The predictions of S-duality (which commutes with the mapping class group) are fulfilled as expected, but the proof requires some surprisingly intricate combinatorial infinite product identities
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/066Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 04
- Journal Issue
- 2008
- Journal Page Range
- p. 066
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40071668
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOUND STATE; DUALITY; ENERGY SPECTRA; MAPPING; SPIN; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SPECTRA