Instanton expansions for mass deformed N=4 super Yang-Mills theories

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DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00314-9zbMATH Open0951.81080arXivhep-th/9710146OpenAlexW3104994817MaRDI QIDQ1570570FDOQ1570570


Authors: J. A. Minahan, Dennis D. Nemeschansky, Nicholas P. Warner Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 11 July 2000

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

Abstract: We derive modular anomaly equations from the Seiberg-Witten-Donagi curves for softly broken N=4 SU(n) gauge theories. From these equations we can derive recursion relations for the pre-potential in powers of m^2, where m is the mass of the adjoint hypermultiplet. Given the perturbative contribution of the pre-potential and the presence of ``gaps we can easily generate the m^2 expansion in terms of polynomials of Eisenstein series, at least for relatively low rank groups. This enables us to determine efficiently the instanton expansion up to fairly high order for these gauge groups, e. g. eighth order for SU(3). We find that after taking a derivative, the instanton expansion of the pre-potential has integer coefficients. We also postulate the form of the modular anomaly equations, the recursion relations and the form of the instanton expansions for the SO(2n) and E_n gauge groups, even though the corresponding Seiberg-Witten-Donagi curves are unknown at this time.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9710146




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