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Witten,Branes and the dynamics of QCD,Nucl

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A brane configuration is described that is relevant to understanding the dynamics of N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Confinement and spontaneous breaking of a discrete chiral symmetry can be understood as consequences of the topology of the brane. Because of the symmetry breaking, there can be domain walls separating different vacua; the QCD string can end on such a domain wall. The model in which these properties can be understood semiclassically does not coincide with supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory but is evidently in the same universality class.

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  • D2-brane probes of non-toric cDV threefolds via monopole superpotentials hep-th · 2026-04-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 45

    D2-brane probes of non-toric cDV threefolds are described by N=2 deformations of 3d N=4 affine Dynkin quivers using polynomial and monopole superpotentials, with 3d mirror symmetry reproducing the known quiver-collapsing mechanism.

  • Baryons, Skyrmions and $\theta$-periodicity anomaly in chiral and vector-like gauge theories hep-th · 2025-10-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 45 · internal anchor

    In chiral SU(N) gauge theories with mixed one- and two-index matter, the CFL-phase coset topology yields no Skyrmions yet permits stable heavy baryons protected by unbroken symmetries, unlike vector-like models; theta anomalies on domain walls are matched without extra light modes when color is full