Exact electric-magnetic duality in N=2 supersymmetric QCD theories

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00271-4zbMATH Open0925.81358arXivhep-th/9601011OpenAlexW3100914454MaRDI QIDQ1921026FDOQ1921026

Authors: Ofer Aharony, Shimon Yankielowicz 

Publication date: 12 August 1996

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

Abstract: We analyze the Coulomb phase of theories of $N=2$ SQCD with $SU(N_c)$ gauge groups which are conjectured to have exact electric-magnetic duality. We discuss the duality transformation of the particle spectrum, emphasizing the differences between the general case and the $SU(2)$ case. Some difficulties associated with the definition of the duality transformation for a general gauge group are discussed. We compute the classical monopole spectrum of these theories, and when it is possible we use it to check the consistency of the duality. Generally these theories may have phase transitions between strong and weak coupling, which prevent the semi-classical computation from being useful for checking the duality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9601011

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zbMATH Keywords

Coulomb phaseclassical monopole spectrumcoupling phase transitionsparticle spectrum duality transformationsemiclassical computation

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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