More on Meta-Stable Brane Configurations by Dualizing the Multiple Gauge Groups

TL;DR

This paper explores dualities in N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories with multiple gauge groups, analyzing brane configurations and superpotentials to identify meta-stable states in string theory setups.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of dual gauge theories with product gauge groups and their brane realizations, including nonsupersymmetric meta-stable configurations.

Findings

Identification of dual gauge theories via brane movements

Construction of nonsupersymmetric meta-stable brane configurations

Analysis of superpotentials revealing stability properties

Abstract

We reexamine the N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories with product gauge groups by adding the mass terms and the quartic terms for the flavors: two gauge group theory with fundamentals, bifundamentals and adjoints, three gauge group theory with fundamentals and bifundamentals, and their orientifold 4-plane generalizations. By moving the branes appropriately, we obtain the corresponding dual gauge theories. By analyzing the dual superpotentials, we present the type IIA nonsupersymmetric meta-stable brane configurations.