MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker: Philip Argyres (U. Cincinnati)
Title: Instantons on R^3 x S^1 and a semi-classical realization of IR renormalons.
Date (JST): Tue, Jan 31, 2012, 13:15 - 14:45
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 595.pdf
Abstract: We study the semi-classical dynamics of four dimensional gauge theories with adjoint fermions compactified on a circle with periodic boundary conditions for the fermions. There are monopole-instantons (with fermion zero modes) and two types of monopole--anti-monopole molecules, called bions. The plasma of the type-one bions--- which carry net magnetic charge---induces a mass gap for gauge fluctuations. The type-two bion is both topologically and magnetically neutral, and its understanding requires a generalization of multi-instanton techniques in quantum mechanics to compactified field theory. We conjecture that it is the semi-classical realization of four-dimensional IR renormalons.