The N= 4 Super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions admits deformations and the exactly marginal deformations of its SU(3) R-symmetry sub-sector are known as Leigh-Strassler. Leigh-Strassler deformations break the N= 4 supersymmetry down to N= 1 while preserving conformal symmetry. With exactly marginal deformations only the F-terms are deformed thus Leigh-Strassler deformations only affect the superpotential in the Lagrangian. In this thesis we study the symmetry of the marginally deformed N= 4 SYM and demonstrate that its algebraic structure can be understood in terms of quasi-Hopf algebras. Quasi-Hopf algebras have a notion of twisting due to Drinfeld which makes them a natural mathematical language with which to treat deformations. Furthermore the deformation of the N= 4 SYM superpotential is automated by the definition of a suitable star product. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020. / NiTheP / Physics / PhD / Unrestricted
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:up/oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/75658 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Dlamini, Siphesihle Hector |
| Contributors | Zoubos, Konstantinos, sickmech@gmail.com |
| Publisher | University of Pretoria |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. |
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