STRONG-COUPLING PHASES OF PLANAR N=2* SUPER-YANG-MILLS THEORY

摘要

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.