Higgs Branch, Hyper-Kähler Quotient and Duality in SUSY N = 2 Yang–Mills Theories

DOI10.1142/S0217751X97002620zbMath0902.53056arXivhep-th/9607058OpenAlexW3099020776WikidataQ57726858 ScholiaQ57726858MaRDI QIDQ4211977

Ignatios Antoniadis, Boris Pioline

Publication date: 18 October 1998

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607058

zbMATH Keywords

singularitiesSeiberg-Witten theoryHiggs branch singularityHiggs phase dualitylow-energy limit of supersymmetric field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

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