DUALITY IN N = 2 SUSY SU ( 2 ) YANG - MILLS THEORY : A pedagogical introduction to the work of Seiberg and Witten
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These are notes from introductory lectures given at the Ecole Normale in Paris and at the Strasbourg meeting dedicated to the memory of Claude Itzykson. I review in considerable detail and in a hopefully pedagogical way the work of Seiberg and Witten on N = 2 supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory without extra matter. This presentation basically follows their original work, except in the last section where the low-energy effective action is obtained emphasizing more the relation between monodromies and differential equations rather than using elliptic curves. To appear in the Proceedings of the “61. Rencontre entre Physiciens Théoriciens et Mathématiciens”, Strasbourg, France, December 1995 dedicated to the memory of Claude Itzykson ⋆ unité propre du CNRS, associé à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure et l’Université Paris-Sud
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