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Strong-coupling phases of planar N=2* super-Yang-Mills theory

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The N=2* theory (mass deformation of the N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory) undergoes an infinite number of quantum phase transitions in the large-N limit. The phase structure and critical behavior can be analyzed using supersymmetric localization, which reduces the problem to an effective matrix model. We study this model in the strong-coupling phase.

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  1. Nordita, Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    K. L. Zarembo

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    K. L. Zarembo

  3. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia

    K. L. Zarembo

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Zarembo, K.L. Strong-coupling phases of planar N=2* super-Yang-Mills theory. Theor Math Phys 181, 1522–1530 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-014-0232-4

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