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It has recently been argued that the confining vacua of Yang-Mills theory in the far infrared can have topological degrees of freedom given by magnetic \( {\mathbb{Z}}_q \) gauge field, both in the non-supersymmetric case and in the \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) supersymmetric case. In this short note we give another piece of evidence by computing and matching the supersymmetric index of the pure super Yang-Mills theory both in the ultraviolet and in the infrared.
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Tachikawa, Y. Magnetic discrete gauge field in the confining vacua and the supersymmetric index. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 35 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2015)035
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