Duality in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
Abstract
These lectures provide an introduction to the behavior of strongly-coupled supersymmetric gauge theories. After a discussion of the effective Lagrangian in nonsupersymmetric and supersymmetric field theories, I analyze the qualitative behavior of the simplest illustrative models. These include supersymmetric QCD for $N_f < N_c$, in which the superpotential is generated nonperturbatively, N=2 SU(2) Yang-Mills theory (the Seiberg-Witten model), in which the nonperturbative behavior of the effective coupling is described geometrically, and supersymmetric QCD for N_f large, in which the theory illustrates a non-Abelian generalization of electric-magnetic duality. [Lectures presented at the 1996 TASI Summer School, to appear in the proceedings.]
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 1997
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9702094
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9702094
- Bibcode:
- 1997hep.th....2094P
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 80 pages, latex + 12 figures, TASI96