S-duality in N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Argyres, Philip C ^a   Seiberg, Nathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal and W symmetry; Duality in gauge field theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory; Supersymmetry and duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049087113     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/088     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. C. Montonen and D.I. Olive, Magnetic monopoles as gauge particles? 1977 Phys. Lett. B 72 117
2. P. Goddard, J. Nuyts and D.I. Olive, Gauge theories and magnetic charge 1977 Nucl. Phys. B 125 1
3. E. Witten and D.I. Olive, Supersymmetry algebras that include topological charges 1978 Phys. Lett. B 78 97
4. H. Osborn, Topological charges for N = 4 supersymmetric gauge theories and monopoles of spin 1 1979 Phys. Lett. B 83 321
5. N. Seiberg and E. Witten, Monopoles, duality and chiral symmetry breaking in N = 2 supersymmetric QCD 1994 Nucl. Phys. B 431 484 [hep-th/9408099]
6. P.C. Argyres, M.R. Plesser and A.D. Shapere, The Coulomb phase of N = 2 supersymmetric QCD 1995 Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 1699 [hep-th/9505100]
7. P.C. Argyres and A. Buchel, unpublished
8. n global symmetry, 1996 Nucl. Phys. B 482 142 [hep-th/9608047]
9. n global symmetry, 1997 Nucl. Phys. B 489 24 [hep-th/9610076]
10. N. Seiberg, Five dimensional SUSY field theories, non-trivial fixed points and string dynamics 1996 Phys. Lett. B 388 753 [hep-th/9608111]
11. O.J. Ganor, Toroidal compactification of heterotic 6D non-critical strings down to four dimensions 1997 Nucl. Phys. B 488 223 [hep-th/9608109]
12. 8 instantons and tensionless non-critical strings 1996 Nucl. Phys. B 474 122 [hep-th/9602120]
13. N. Seiberg and E. Witten, Comments on string dynamics in six dimensions 1996 Nucl. Phys. B 471 121 [hep-th/9603003]
14. N. Seiberg, Non-trivial fixed points of the renormalization group in six dimensions 1997 Phys. Lett. B 390 169 [hep-th/9609161]
15. O. Aharony, J. Sonnenschein, S. Yankielowicz and S. Theisen, Field theory questions for string theory answers 1997 Nucl. Phys. B 493 177 [hep-th/9611222]
16. M.R. Douglas, D.A. Lowe and J.H. Schwarz, Probing F-theory with multiple branes 1997 Phys. Lett. B 394 297 [hep-th/9612062]
17. P.C. Argyres, S-duality and global symmetries in N = 2 supersymmetric field theory 1998 Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 2 293 [hep-th/9706095]
18. P.C. Argyres and A. Buchel, New s-Dualities in N = 2 supersymmetric SU(2) × SU(2) gauge theory, 1999 J. High Energy Phys. JHEP11(1999)014 [hep-th/9910125]
19. E. Witten, Solutions of four-dimensional field theories via M-theory 1997 Nucl. Phys. B 500 3 [hep-th/9703166]
20. G. 't Hooft, Naturalness, chiral symmetry, and spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in Recent developments in gauge theories G. 't Hooft et al. eds., Cargèse (1979), (Plenum Press) (1990)
21. RR, 2005 Nucl. Phys. B 730 210 [hep-th/0507137]
22. S. Minwalla, Restrictions imposed by superconformal invariance on quantum field theories 1998 Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 2 781 [hep-th/9712074]
23. P.C. Argyres and A.D. Shapere, The vacuum structure of N = 2 superQCD with classical gauge groups 1996 Nucl. Phys. B 461 437 [hep-th/9509175]
24. K. Landsteiner, E. Lopez and D.A. Lowe, Supersymmetric gauge theories from branes and orientifold six-planes 1998 J. High Energy Phys. JHEP07(1998)011 [hep-th/9805158]
25. P.C. Argyres, M. Crescimanno, A.D. Shapere and J.R. Wittig, Classification of N = 2 superconformal field theories with two-dimensional Coulomb branches [hep-th/0504070]
26. M. Noguchi, S. Terashima and S.-K. Yang, N = 2 superconformal field theory with ADE global symmetry on a D3-brane probe 1999 Nucl. Phys. B 556 115 [hep-th/9903215]
27. W. Lerche and N.P. Warner, Polytopes and solitons in integrable, N = 2 supersymmetric Landau-Ginzburg theories 1991 Nucl. Phys. B 358 571
28. W. McKay and J. Patera, Tables of dimensions, indices, and branching rules for representations of simple Lie algebras Marcel Dekker (1981)