The moduli space of vacua of \(N=2\) SUSY QCD and duality in \(N=1\) SUSY QCD

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00210-6zbMath1003.81565arXivhep-th/9603042OpenAlexW1605211341WikidataQ59711383 ScholiaQ59711383MaRDI QIDQ1915075

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 11 June 1996

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603042

zbMATH Keywords

submanifolds Higgs branch color symmetry Coulomb branch massless quarks Non-perturbative methods nonAbelian gauge symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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