The Holomorphic Tension of Nonabelian Vortices
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We continue the work hep-th/0411075 considering here the case of degenerate masses. A nonabelian vortex arises in r-vacua upon the breaking by a superpotential for the adjoint field. We find the BPS tension in the strong coupling regime computing the dual-quark condensate. Then we find that it is equal to a simple quantity in the chiral ring of the theory and so we conjecture the validity of our result out of the strong coupling regime. Our result sheed light on the duality r ↔ Nf − r, seeing it as the exange first ↔ second sheet of N = 1 Riemann surface.
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The Holomorphic Tension of Nonabelian Vortices and the Quark = Dual-Quark Condensate
We continue the work hep-th/0411075 considering here the case of degenerate masses. A nonabelian vortex arises in r-vacua upon the breaking by a superpotential for the adjoint field. The holomorphic tension, equal to the dual-quark condensate, is found to be exactly equal to the quark condensate. We explain this equality as a consequence of the invariance of the BPS tension along the Higgs branch.
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