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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2023
Print publication year:
2023
Online ISBN:
9781009402200
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Book description

In the last decade methods and techniques based on supersymmetry have provided deep insights in quantum chromodynamics and other non-supersymmetric gauge theories at strong coupling. This book summarizes major advances in critical solitons in supersymmetric theories, and their implications for understanding basic dynamical regularities of non-supersymmetric theories. After an extended introduction on the theory of critical solitons, including a historical introduction, the authors focus on three topics: non-Abelian strings and confined monopoles; reducing the level of supersymmetry; and domain walls as D-brane prototypes. They also provide a thorough review of issues at the cutting edge, such as non-Abelian flux tubes. The book presents an extensive summary of the current literature so researchers in this field can understand the background and related issues. First published in 2009, this title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

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  • Frontmatter
    pp i-vi
  • Figure
    pp vii-viii
  • Contents
    pp ix-xii
  • Acknowledgments
    pp xiii-xiii
  • List of abbreviations
    pp xiv-xiv
  • 1 - Introduction
    pp 1-4
  • Part I - Short Excursion
    pp 5-6
  • 2 - Central charges in superalgebras
    pp 7-14
  • 3 - The main building blocks
    pp 15-78
  • Part II - Long Journey
    pp 79-80
  • Introduction to Part II
    pp 81-84
  • 4 - Non-Abelian strings
    pp 85-141
  • 5 - Less supersymmetry
    pp 142-170
  • 6 - Non-BPS non-Abelian strings
    pp 171-187
  • 7 - Strings on the Higgs branches
    pp 188-195
  • 8 - Domain walls as D-brane prototypes
    pp 196-208
  • 9 - Wall-string junctions
    pp 209-222
  • 10 - Conclusions
    pp 223-227
  • Appendix A - Conventions and notation
    pp 228-233
  • Appendix B - Many faces of two-dimensional supersymmetric CP(N − 1) model
    pp 234-242
  • Appendix C - Strings in N = 2 SQED
    pp 243-247
  • References
    pp 248-255
  • Index
    pp 256-257
  • Author index
    pp 258-260

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