Published April 15, 2009 | Version v1
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Description of the heterotic string solutions in U(N) supersymmetric QCD

  • 1. Theoretical Physics Department, St. Petersburg State University, Ulyanovskaya 1, Peterhof, St. Petersburg, 198504 (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260 (United States)
  • 3. William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (United States)
  • 4. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117259 (Russian Federation)
  • 5. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg 188300 (Russian Federation)

Description

We continue the study of heterotic non-Abelian Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield-saturated flux tubes (strings). Previously, such solutions were obtained [M. Shifman and A. Yung, Phys. Rev. D 77, 125016 (2008).] in a particular U(2) gauge theory: N=2 supersymmetric QCD deformed by superpotential terms of a special type breaking N=2 supersymmetry down to N=1. Here we generalize the previous results to U(N) gauge theories. As was suggested by Edalati and Tong [M. Edalati and D. Tong, J. High Energy Phys. 05 (2007) 005.], the string world-sheet theory is a heterotic N=(0,2) sigma model, with the CP(N-1) target space for bosonic fields and an extra right-handed fermion which couples to the fermion fields of the N=(2,2) CP(N-1) model. We derive the heterotic N=(0,2) world-sheet model directly from the U(N) bulk theory. Parameters of the bulk theory are related to those of the world-sheet theory. Qualitatively this relation turns out to be the same as in the U(2) case.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
79
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 085015-085015.18
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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