Testing Seiberg-Witten theory to all orders in the instanton expansion

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00558-8zbMATH Open0997.81057arXivhep-th/0202197OpenAlexW3105691066MaRDI QIDQ1611201FDOQ1611201

Authors: Timothy J. Hollowood 

Publication date: 21 August 2002

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

Abstract: In the context of softly-broken N=4 to N=2 supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theory, we calculate using semi-classical instanton methods, the lowest order non-trivial terms in the mass expansion of the prepotential for all instanton number. We find exact agreement with Seiberg-Witten theory and thereby achieve the most powerful test yet of this theory. We also calculate the one- and two-instanton contributions completely and also find consistency with Seiberg-Witten theory. Our approach relies on the fact that the instanton calculus admits a nilpotent fermionic symmetry, or BRST operator, whose existence implies that the integrals over the instanton moduli space, which give the coefficients of the prepotential, localize on the space of resolved point-like instantons or what we call ``topicons.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202197

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zbMATH Keywords

semi-classical methodsprepotential mass expansionsoftly-broken supersymmetric SU\((N)\) gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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