On Domain Walls of N = 1 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills in Four Dimensions
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چکیده
We study the BPS domain walls of supersymmetric Yang-Mills for arbitrary gauge group G. We describe the degeneracies of domain walls interpolating between arbitrary pairs of vacua. A recently proposed large N duality sheds light on various aspects of such domain walls. In particular, for the case of G = SU(N) the domain walls correspond to wrapped D-branes giving rise to a 2+1 dimensional U(k) gauge theory on the domain wall with a Chern-Simons term at level N . This leads to a counting of BPS degeneracies of domain walls in agreement with expected results.
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