On the Seiberg-Witten Approach to electric-magnetic Duality

1996/08/19 by Werner Nahm, Nahm, Werner
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/9608121

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Abstract

Electric-magnetic duality allows to calculate the central charges of N=2 supersymmetric theories with massless hypermultiplets as derivatives of simple modular forms. The procedure reproduces the Seiberg-Witten results for N_f=0,2,3 in a uniform way, but indicates open problems for N_f=1.

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