Seiberg-Witten integrable systems

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Authors Ron Donagi

Publication date 14 September 1998

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9705010

zbMATH Keywords

dualityelliptic curveintegrabilitymonodromystrong interactionsupersymmetrysurveyYang-Mills quantum gauge field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with algebraic geometry, complex analysis, and special functions (37K20) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: This is a survey of the work of Seiberg and Witten on 4-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and of some of its recent extensions, written for mathematicians. The point of view is that of algebraic geometry and integrable systems. An introductory chapter tries to describe some of the relevant physics for a reader with no physics background. This is followed by a review of the relevant properties of integrable systems. The remaining chapters describe the specific integrable systems used, and include a detailed study of the applications to quantum field theory.

Review text

This is a concisely written survey for pure mathematicians, comprising many aspects of mathematical theories related to the so-called supersymmetric versions of Yang-Mills (YM) quantum gauge-field-theory models of strong interactions, as well as of the algebraic-geometry integrability of these and other models. The supersymmetry (SUSY) is a special form of an intrinsic invariance of a field model which includes bosonic and fermionic fields. The SUSY transformation mixes the bosonic and fermionic components. It is characterized by a number \(N\) (\(1\leq N\leq 4\)) of independent generators. The central point in this survey is a review of a recent discovery of Seiberg and Witten, who put forward an exact solution to the \(N=2\) SUSY version of the YM quantum field-theory model with the \(SU(2)\) gauge group in four dimensions. Their exact solution is based on algebraic-geometry techniques (involving families of elliptic curves), the key point being to find the needed monodromy transformation. The survey also reviews some other quantum-field models that can be solved exactly along similar lines. In particular, setting the mass constant of the model's matter component equal to zero upgrades the SUSY order from \(N=2\) to \(N=4\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0882.00033].

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