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Duality in N = 2 SUSY SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory: A Pedagogical Introduction

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I review in considerable detail and in a hopefully pedagogical way the work of Seiberg and Witten on N = 2 supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory without extra matter. This presentation basically follows their original work, except in the last section where the low-energy effective action is obtained emphasizing more the relation between monodromies and differential equations rather than using elliptic curves.

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  1. CNRS — Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Adel Bilal

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  1. University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Gerard ’t Hooft

  2. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Arthur Jaffe

  3. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Gerhard Mack

  4. CNRS, University of Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

    Pronob K. Mitter

  5. Laboratory of Particle Physics, Annecy-le-Vieux, Annecy-le-Vieux, France

    Raymond Stora

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Bilal, A. (1997). Duality in N = 2 SUSY SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory: A Pedagogical Introduction. In: ’t Hooft, G., Jaffe, A., Mack, G., Mitter, P.K., Stora, R. (eds) Quantum Fields and Quantum Space Time. NATO ASI Series, vol 364. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1801-7_2

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