Notes on theories with 16 supercharges

1997/05/20 by Nathan Seiberg · 6 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Class (philosophy) #Field (mathematics) #Field theory (psychology) #Gravitational singularity #Moduli space #Space (punctuation) #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0920-5632(98)00128-5

published as Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.67:158-171,1998 · This is an updated version of lectures presented at the Jerusalem Winter School on Strings and Duality. These notes will appear in the Proceedings of The Trieste Spring School (March 7--12). 22 pages (harvmac). Typos and references corrected

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Abstract

We survey the various field theories with 16 real supercharges. The most widely known theory in this class is the N=4 theory in four dimensions. The moduli space of vacua of these theories are described and the physics at the singularities of the moduli spaces are studied.

Citations

• Global Anomalies and Geometric Engineering of Critical Theories in Six Dimensions
• Gauge Dynamics And Compactification To Three Dimensions
• Supersymmetries and their representations
• Heterotic phase transitions and singularities of the gauge dyonic string
• Gauge theories and magnetic charge
• Dyon-monopole bound states, self-dual harmonic forms on the multi-monopole moduli space, and SL (2,Z) invariance in string theory
• Topological charges for N = 4 supersymmetric gauge theories and monopoles of spin 1
• Magnetic monopoles as gauge particles?
• Non-trivial fixed points of the renormalization group in six dimensions
• Topological reduction of 4D SYM to 2D σ-models
• Dyonic membranes

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