We demonstrate a classical equivalence between the large-N limit of the Higgsed N = 1 * SUSY U (N ) Yang-Mills theory and the MaldacenaNúñez twisted compactification of a six dimensional gauge theory on a two-sphere. A direct comparison of the actions and spectra of the two theories reveals them to be identical. We also propose a gauge theory limit which should describe the corresponding spherical compactification of Little String Theory.

We present evidence that N = 1 * SUSY Yang-Mills provides a deconstruction of a six-dimensional gauge theory compactified on a two-sphere. The six-dimensional theory is a twisted compactification of N = (1, 1) SUSY Yang-Mills theory of the type considered by Maldacena and Nunez (MN) in [1]. In particular, we calculate the full classical spectrum of the N = 1 * theory with gauge group U (N ) in its Higgs vacuum. In the limit N → ∞, we find an exact agreement with the Kaluza-Klein spectrum of the MN compactification.