Authors: Dušan Simić
Publish Date: 2011/05/23
Volume: 2011, Issue: 5, Pages: 104-
Abstract
A large class of duality cascades based on quivers arising from nonisolated singularities enjoy adjoint transitionsa phenomenon which occurs when the gauge coupling of a node possessing adjoint matter is driven to strong coupling in a manner resulting in a reduction of rank in the nonAbelian part of the gauge group and a subsequent flow to weaker coupling We describe adjoint transitions in a simple family of cascades based on a mathbbZ 2 orbifold of the conifold using field theory We show that they are dual to Higgsing and produce varying numbers of U1 factors moduli and monopoles in a manner which we calculate This realizes a large family of cascades which proceed through Seiberg duality and Higgsing We briefly describe the supergravity limit of our analysis as well as a prescription for treating more general theories A special role is played by mathcalN = 2 SQCD Our results suggest that additional light fields are typically generated when UV completing certain constructions of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking into cascadespotentially leading to instabilitiesThis article is published under an open access license Please check the Copyright Information section for details of this license and what reuse is permitted If your intended use exceeds what is permitted by the license or if you are unable to locate the licence and reuse information please contact the Rights and Permissions team
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