ELECTRIC-MAGNETIC DUALITY, MONOPOLE CONDENSATION, AND CONFINEMENT IN N=2 SUPERSYMMETRIC YANG-MILLS THEORY

被引：2586
作者：
SEIBERG, N [1 ]
WITTEN, E [1 ]
机构：
[1] INST ADV STUDY,PRINCETON,NJ 08540
来源：
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B | 1994年 / 426卷 / 01期
基金：
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I：
10.1016/0550-3213(94)90124-4
中图分类号：
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要：
We study the vacuum structure and dyon spectrum of N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theory in four dimensions, with gauge group SU(2). The theory turns out to have remarkably rich and physical properties which can nonetheless be described precisely; exact formulas can be obtained, for instance, for electron and dyon masses and the metric on the moduli space of vacua. The description involves a version of Olive-Montonen electric-magnetic duality. The ''strongly coupled'' vacuum turns out to be a weakly coupled theory of monopoles, and with a suitable perturbation confinement is described by monopole condensation.
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