Domain walls and deconfinement: a semiclassical picture of discrete anomaly inflow

A bstract We study the physics of quark deconfinement on domain walls in four-di- mensional supersymmetric SU( N ) Yang-Mills theory, compactified on a small circle with supersymmetric boundary conditions. We numerically examine the properties of BPS domain walls connecting vacua k units apart. We also determine their electric fluxes and use the results to show that Wilson loops of any nonzero N -ality exhibit perimeter law on all k -walls. Our results confirm and extend, to all N and k , the validity of the semiclassical picture of deconfinement of Anber, Sulejmanpasic and one of us (EP), arXiv:1501.06773 , providing a microscopic explanation of mixed 0-form/1-form anomaly inflow.