2004/07/21 by Stephen G. Naculich, Stephen Naculich, Naculich, Stephen G. +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0407179
14 pages; based on the talk by H. J. Schnitzer at the Deserfest, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 3-5 April, 2004; v3: references added
openalex publication_date 2004/07/21 · arxiv created 2004/07/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The Seiberg-Witten solution plays a central role in the study of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories. As such, it provides a proving ground for a wide variety of techniques to treat such problems. In this review we concentrate on the role of IIA string theory/M theory and the Dijkgraaf-Vafa matrix model, though integrable models and microscopic instanton calculations are also of considerable importance in this subject.