A Note on Seiberg Duality and Chiral Symmetry Breaking

Understand

Following arXiv:1310.2027 and arXiv:0801.0762, we consider a non-supersymmetric Seiberg duality between electric and magnetic "orientifold field theories".

• These theories live on brane configurations of type 0' string theory.
• In the electric theory side the scalars acquire a mass and decouple, resulting in an SU(Nc) gauge theory coupled to Nf massless quarks and an additional massless fermion that transforms in the two-index antisymmetric representation.
• In the magnetic theory side there exists a fundamental meson field that develops a Coleman-Weinberg potential.