Vector Mesons and an Interpretation of Seiberg Duality

Understand

We interpret the dynamics of Supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) in terms of ideas familiar from the hadronic world.

• Some mysterious properties of the supersymmetric theory, such as the emergent magnetic gauge symmetry, are shown to have analogs in QCD.
• On the other hand, several phenomenological concepts, such as "hidden local symmetry" and "vector meson dominance," are shown to be rigorously realized in SQCD.
• These considerations suggest a relation between the flavor symmetry group and the emergent gauge fields in theories with a weakly coupled dual description.