Deconstruction of the Maldacena-Nunez Compactification

TL;DR

This paper shows a classical equivalence between a large-N Higgsed N=1* SUSY U(N) Yang-Mills theory and the Maldacena-Nunez twisted compactification, revealing their identical actions and spectra, and proposes a related gauge theory limit for Little String Theory.

Contribution

It establishes a classical equivalence between two complex theories and proposes a new gauge theory limit related to Little String Theory.

Findings

The actions and spectra of the two theories are identical.

A gauge theory limit for spherical Little String Theory compactification is proposed.

Abstract

We demonstrate a classical equivalence between the large-N limit of the Higgsed N=1* SUSY U(N) Yang-Mills theory and the Maldacena-Nunez twisted compactification of a six dimensional gauge theory on a two-sphere. A direct comparison of the actions and spectra of the two theories reveals them to be identical. We also propose a gauge theory limit which should describe the corresponding spherical compactification of Little String Theory.