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Hauptverfasser: Bertle, Hanno, Pomoni, Elli, Zhang, Xinyu, Zoubos, Konstantinos
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11612
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author Bertle, Hanno
Pomoni, Elli
Zhang, Xinyu
Zoubos, Konstantinos
author_facet Bertle, Hanno
Pomoni, Elli
Zhang, Xinyu
Zoubos, Konstantinos
contents We study the global symmetries of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-orbifold of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory and its marginal deformations. The process of orbifolding to obtain an N=2 theory would appear to break the $\mathrm{SU}(4)$ R-symmetry down to $\mathrm{SU}(2)\times \mathrm{SU}(2)\times \mathrm{U}(1)$. We show that the broken generators can be recovered by moving beyond the Lie algebraic setting to that of a Lie algebroid. This remains true when marginally deforming away from the orbifold point by allowing the couplings of the $ \mathrm{SU}(N)\times \mathrm{SU}(N)$ gauge groups to vary independently. The information about the marginal deformation is captured by a Drinfeld-type twist of this $\mathrm{SU}(4)$ Lie algebroid. The twist is read off from the F- and D- terms, and thus directly from the Lagrangian. Even though at the orbifold point the algebraic structure is associative, it becomes non-associative after the marginal deformation. We explicitly check that the planar Lagrangian of the theory is invariant under this twisted version of the $\mathrm{SU}(4)$ algebroid and we discuss implications of this hidden symmetry for the spectrum of the N=2 theory.
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spellingShingle Hidden Symmetries of 4D N=2 Gauge Theories
Bertle, Hanno
Pomoni, Elli
Zhang, Xinyu
Zoubos, Konstantinos
High Energy Physics - Theory
We study the global symmetries of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-orbifold of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory and its marginal deformations. The process of orbifolding to obtain an N=2 theory would appear to break the $\mathrm{SU}(4)$ R-symmetry down to $\mathrm{SU}(2)\times \mathrm{SU}(2)\times \mathrm{U}(1)$. We show that the broken generators can be recovered by moving beyond the Lie algebraic setting to that of a Lie algebroid. This remains true when marginally deforming away from the orbifold point by allowing the couplings of the $ \mathrm{SU}(N)\times \mathrm{SU}(N)$ gauge groups to vary independently. The information about the marginal deformation is captured by a Drinfeld-type twist of this $\mathrm{SU}(4)$ Lie algebroid. The twist is read off from the F- and D- terms, and thus directly from the Lagrangian. Even though at the orbifold point the algebraic structure is associative, it becomes non-associative after the marginal deformation. We explicitly check that the planar Lagrangian of the theory is invariant under this twisted version of the $\mathrm{SU}(4)$ algebroid and we discuss implications of this hidden symmetry for the spectrum of the N=2 theory.
title Hidden Symmetries of 4D N=2 Gauge Theories
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11612