scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1513909

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Authors Jerome P. Gauntlett

Publication date 8 October 2000

zbMATH Keywords

BPS monopoleColoumb branchdualitymoduli spacesuper Yang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Review text

The purpose of these lectures is to review some aspects of exact duality focusing on theories with \(N=4\) supersymmetry. In these theories the duality group is \(SL(2,\mathbb{Z})\) which includes a \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) corresponding to the interchange of electric and magnetic charges along with the interchange of strong and weak coupling. BPS states are important for testing duality because they form short representations of the supersymmetry algebra and hence we have good control over their behavior as we vary the coupling. At weak coupling the predicted BPS spectrum can be translated into statements about certain geometric structures on the moduli space of BPS monopole solutions. Some open problems are outlined. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0919.00030].

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