Introduction to Seiberg-Witten theory and its stringy origin

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00073-XzbMath0957.81701arXivhep-th/9611190WikidataQ126550861 ScholiaQ126550861MaRDI QIDQ5927173

Wolfgang Lerche

Publication date: 8 March 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9611190

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) 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) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Elliptic curves (14H52)

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