Matrix Models, Monopoles and Modified Moduli

TL;DR

This paper explores the matrix model duals of N=1 supersymmetric SU(Nc) gauge theories with Nf flavors, revealing relations between vacua, monopole condensation, and quantum moduli constraints, supported by explicit solutions and M5-brane insights.

Contribution

It demonstrates a relation between vacua of different theories via matrix models, incorporating baryon VEVs and consistency with Seiberg-Witten curve factorization.

Findings

Matrix model solutions match quantum moduli constraints.

Explicit predictions for monopole condensation locations.

Consistency with M5-brane constructions and Seiberg-Witten curves.

Abstract

Motivated by the Dijkgraaf-Vafa correspondence, we consider the matrix model duals of N=1 supersymmetric SU(Nc) gauge theories with Nf flavors. We demonstrate via the matrix model solutions a relation between vacua of theories with different numbers of colors and flavors. This relation is due to an N=2 nonrenormalization theorem which is inherited by these N=1 theories. Specializing to the case Nf=Nc, the simplest theory containing baryons, we demonstrate that the explicit matrix model predictions for the locations on the Coulomb branch at which monopoles condense are consistent with the quantum modified constraints on the moduli in the theory. The matrix model solutions include the case that baryons obtain vacuum expectation values. In specific cases we check explicitly that these results are also consistent with the factorization of corresponding Seiberg-Witten curves. Certain results are easily understood in terms of M5-brane constructions of these gauge theories.