The effective potential of the N=0*Yang-Mills theory -: art. no. 033

We study the N = 4 SYM theory with SU(N) gauge group in the large-N limit, deformed by giving equal mass to the four adjoint fermions. With this modification, a potential is dynamically generated for the six scalars in the theory, phi(i). We show that the resulting theory is stable (perturbatively in the 't Hooft coupling), and that there are some indications that <phi> = 0 is the vacuum of the theory. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we compare the results to the corresponding supergravity computation, i.e. brane probing a deformed AdS(5) x S-5 background, and we find qualitative agreement.