BPS geodesics in N = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00267-8zbMATH Open0979.81589arXivhep-th/9702012MaRDI QIDQ1361923FDOQ1361923

Authors: O. Diekmann 

Publication date: 31 July 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce some techniques for making a more global analysis of the existence of geodesics on a Seiberg-Witten Riemann surface with metric $d{s}^2=|lambd{a}_{SW}{|}^2$. Because the existence of such geodesics implies the existence of BPS states in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, one can use these methods to study the BPS spectrum in various phases of the Yang-Mills theory. By way of illustration, we show how, using our new methods, one can easily recover the known results for the N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) pure gauge theory, and we show in detail how it also works for the N=2, SU(2) theory coupled to a massive adjoint matter multiplet.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702012

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zbMATH Keywords

global analysissupersymmetric Yang-Mills theoryBogomolnyi Prasad Sommerfield statesSeiberg-Witten Riemann surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45)

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