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We are finally prepared enough to start the analysis of the simplest of non-Abelian \(\mathcal{N}=2\) supersymmetric theory, namely the pure SU(2) gauge theory. We mainly follow the presentation of the original paper [1], except that we use the Seiberg–Witten curve in the form first found in [2], which is more suited to the generalization later.
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It is real two-dimensional, and therefore it is a surface from a usual point of view. Mathematicians are strange and they consider one-dimensional objects curves, whether it is complex one-dimensional or real one-dimensional.
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The symbol λ were for adjoint fermions up to this point, but we use λ mainly for the differential from now on, unless otherwise noted.
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Tachikawa, Y. (2015). Seiberg–Witten Solution to Pure SU(2) Theory. In: N=2 Supersymmetric Dynamics for Pedestrians. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 890. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08822-8_4
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