Volume Independence in Large Nc QCD-like Gauge Theories

doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/019

Title: Volume Independence in Large Nc QCD-like Gauge Theories

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Volume independence in large N{sub c} gauge theories may be viewed as a generalized orbifold equivalence. The reduction to zero volume (or Eguchi-Kawai reduction) is a special case of this equivalence. So is temperature independence in confining phases. A natural generalization concerns volume independence in ''theory space'' of quiver gauge theories. In pure Yang-Mills theory, the failure of volume independence for sufficiently small volumes (at weak coupling) due to spontaneous breaking of center symmetry, together with its validity above a critical size, nicely illustrate the symmetry realization conditions which are both necessary and sufficient for large N{sub c} orbifold equivalence. The existence of a minimal size below which volume independence fails also applies to Yang-Mills theory with antisymmetric representation fermions [QCD(AS)]. However, in Yang-Mills theory with adjoint representation fermions [QCD(Adj)], endowed with periodic boundary conditions, volume independence remains valid down to arbitrarily small size. In sufficiently large volumes, QCD(Adj) and QCD(AS) have a large N{sub c} ''orientifold'' equivalence, provided charge conjugation symmetry is unbroken in the latter theory. Therefore, via a combined orbifold-orientifold mapping, a well-defined large N{sub c} equivalence exists between QCD(AS) in large, or infinite, volume and QCD(Adj) in arbitrarily small volume. Since asymptotically free gauge theories, suchmore »« less

Authors:: Kovtun, Pavel; Unsal, Mithat; Yaffe, Laurence G.

Publication Date:: Tue Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2007

Research Org.:: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 899207

Report Number(s):: SLAC-PUB-12331
hep-th/0702021; TRN: US0701928

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Resource Relation:: Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRITICAL SIZE; FERMIONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SYMMETRY; YANG-MILLS THEORY; Theory-HEP,HEPTH

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                    Kovtun, Pavel, Unsal, Mithat, and Yaffe, Laurence G. Volume Independence in Large Nc QCD-like Gauge Theories.  United States: N. p., 2007. 
        Web.  doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/019.

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                    Kovtun, Pavel, Unsal, Mithat, & Yaffe, Laurence G. Volume Independence in Large Nc QCD-like Gauge Theories.  United States.  doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/019.

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                    Kovtun, Pavel, Unsal, Mithat, and Yaffe, Laurence G. Tue .  
        "Volume Independence in Large Nc QCD-like Gauge Theories".  United States.  
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