1999/06/30 by Yuji Ohta, Yűji Ohta
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Consistency (knowledge bases) #Context (archaeology) #Differential equation #Finite set #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge theory #Hierarchy #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Meromorphic function #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.533093
published as J.Math.Phys.40:6292-6301,1999 · to be published in J. Math. Phys, revtex, 14 pages
arxiv created 1999/10/04 · openalex publication_date 1999/12/01 · arxiv updated 2014/11/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In general, Whitham dynamics involves infinitely many parameters called Whitham times, but in the context of N=2 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory it can be regarded as a finite system by restricting the number of Whitham times appropriately. For example, in the case of SU(r+1) gauge theory without hypermultiplets, there are r Whitham times and they play an essential role in the theory. In this situation, the generating meromorphic one-form of the Whitham hierarchy on the Seiberg–Witten curve is represented by a finite linear combination of meromorphic one-forms associated with these Whitham times, but it turns out that there are various differential relations among these differentials. Since these relations can be written only in terms of the Seiberg–Witten one-form, their consistency conditions are found to give the Picard–Fuchs equations for the Seiberg–Witten periods.