Electric-magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
Abstract
We study the vacuum structure and don 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.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- September 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0550-3213(94)90124-4
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9407087
- Bibcode:
- 1994NuPhB.426...19S
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 45pp, harvmac