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#### Mass Deformations of Super Yang-Mills Theories in D= 2+1, and Super-Membranes: A Note

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Agarwal,  Abhishek
Duality & Integrable Structures, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Agarwal, A. (2009). Mass Deformations of Super Yang-Mills Theories in D= 2+1, and Super-Membranes: A Note. Modern Physics Letters A, 24(03), 193-211. doi:10.1142/S0217732309028904.

Cite as: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-4522-C
##### Abstract
Mass deformations of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories in three spacetime dimensions are considered. The gluons of the theories are made massive by the inclusion of a non-local gauge and Poincare invariant mass term due to Alexanian and Nair, while the matter fields are given standard Gaussian mass-terms. It is shown that the dimensional reduction of such mass deformed gauge theories defined on $R^3$ or $R\times T^2$ produces matrix quantum mechanics with massive spectra. In particular, all known massive matrix quantum mechanical models obtained by the deformations of dimensional reductions of minimal super Yang-Mills theories in diverse dimensions are shown also to arise from the dimensional reductions of appropriate massive Yang-Mills theories in three spacetime dimensions. Explicit formulae for the gauge theory actions are provided.