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We revisit the vacuum structure of the \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 Intriligator-Seiberg-Shenker model on ℝ3 × S1. Guided by the Cardy-like asymptotics of its Romelsberger index, and building on earlier semi-classical results by Poppitz and Ünsal, we argue that previously overlooked non-perturbative effects generate a Higgs-type potential on the classical Coulomb branch of the low-energy effective 3d \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 theory. In particular, on part of the Coulomb branch we encounter the first instance of a dynamically-generated quintic monopole superpotential.
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Ardehali, A.A., Cassia, L. & Lü, Y. From exact results to gauge dynamics on ℝ3 × S1. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 53 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)053
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