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Gaiotto, Davide; Witten, Edward

Janus configurations, Chern-Simons couplings, and the {\(\theta\)}-angle in \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) super Yang-Mills theory. (English) Zbl 1290.81065

J. High Energy Phys. 2010, No. 6, Paper No. 097, 58 p. (2010).
Summary: We generalize the half-BPS Janus configuration of four-dimensional \(\mathcal{N} = 4 \) super Yang-Mills theory to allow the theta-angle, as well as the gauge coupling, to vary with position. We show that the existence of this generalization is closely related to the existence of novel three-dimensional Chern-Simons theories with \(\mathcal{N} = 4 \) supersymmetry. Another closely related problem, which we also elucidate, is the D3-NS5 system in the presence of a four-dimensional theta-angle.

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81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
81T60 Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics
81T30 String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory
58J28 Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants

Keywords:

intersecting branes models; D-branes; Chern-Simons theories
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