1996/06/26 by Luis Álvarez-Gaumé, L. Alvarez-Gaume, Marcos Mariño +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9606168
31 pages, 14 eps figures, uses sprocl.sty
arxiv created 1996/06/26 · openalex publication_date 1996/06/26 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We analyze the possible soft breaking of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with and without matter flavour preserving the analyticity properties of the Seiberg-Witten solution. We present the formalism for an arbitrary gauge group and obtain an exact expression for the effective potential. We describe in detail the onset of the confinement description and the vacuum structure for the pure SU(2) Yang-Mills case and also some general features in the SU(N) case. A general mass formula is obtained, as well as explicit results for the mass spectrum in the SU(2) case.