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Simple Singularities and N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

arXiv:hep-th/9411048 · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(94)01516-F

Abstract

We present a first step towards generalizing the work of Seiberg and Witten on N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to arbitrary gauge groups. Specifically, we propose a particular sequence of hyperelliptic genus Riemann surfaces to underly the quantum moduli space of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory. These curves have an obvious generalization to arbitrary simply laced gauge groups, which involves the A-D-E type simple singularities. To support our proposal, we argue that the monodromy in the semiclassical regime is correctly reproduced. We also give some remarks on a possible relation to string theory.

13p, harvmac/lanlmac with hyperlinks 1 uuencoded PostScript figure appended (Some inconsistencies and typos were corrected, we also dropped our conjectures for the monodromies at strong coupling, of which we know now that they are different.)

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