{
  "id": "hep-th/9712172",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "1997-12-18T00:46:15.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-04-30T14:29:38.000Z",
  "title": "Supersymmetric Gauge Theories with Classical Groups via M Theory Fivebrane",
  "authors": [
    "Seiji Terashima"
  ],
  "comment": "45 pages, Latex. Includes corrections to sections on Higgs branch. Minor corrections to text. Final version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B",
  "journal": "Nucl.Phys. B526 (1998) 163-198",
  "doi": "10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00279-X",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the moduli space of vacua of four dimensional N=1 and N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with the gauge groups $Sp(2 N_c)$, $SO(2 N_c)$ and $SO(2 N_c +1)$ using the M theory fivebrane. Higgs branches of the N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories are interpreted in terms of the M theory fivebrane and the type IIA $s$-rule is realized in it. In particular we construct the fivebrane configuration which corresponds to a special Higgs branch root. This root is analogous to the baryonic branch root in the $SU(N_c)$ theory which remains as a vacuum after the adjoint mass perturbation to break N=2 to N=1. Furthermore we obtain the monopole condensations and the meson vacuum expectation values in the confining phase of N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories using the fivebrane technique. These are in complete agreement with the field theory results for the vacua in the phase with a single confined photon.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "1998-04-30T14:29:38.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "supersymmetric gauge theories",
      "theory fivebrane",
      "classical groups",
      "meson vacuum expectation values",
      "special higgs branch root"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "Elsevier",
      "journal": "Nucl. Phys. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 45,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 452542
    }
  }
}