On different criteria for confinement

We compare two approaches in supersymmetric confinement, the Seiberg formulation and the superconvergence rule. For the latter, the critical point is gamma (00) = 0 in the Landau gauge. We find 4 gamma (00) = beta (0) is the critical point for most of confining theories without a tree-level superpotential in the Seiberg formulation, in particular, in the large N-c and N-f limit. We show how confining theories with a discrete symmetry and a tree-level superpotential connect these two critical points: the large and small discrete symmetry limits correspond to the critical points 4 gamma (00) = beta (0) and gamma (00) = 0, respectively.dagger.