
handle: 11588/880458
We uncover a novel solution of the 't Hooft anomaly matching conditions for QCD. Interestingly in the perturbative regime the new gauge theory, if interpreted as a possible QCD dual, predicts the critical number of flavors above which QCD in the nonperturbative regime, develops an infrared stable fixed point. Remarkably this value is identical to the maximum bound predicted in the nonpertubative regime via the all-orders conjectured beta function for nonsupersymmetric gauge theories.
RevTeX, 13 pages. Added discussion on operator matching and flavor decoupling. Version to match the published one
High Energy Physics - Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), hep-th, High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat), hep-lat, FOS: Physical sciences, hep-ph
High Energy Physics - Theory, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Lattice, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), hep-th, High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat), hep-lat, FOS: Physical sciences, hep-ph
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