The Vacuum Structure and Spectrum of N=2 Supersymmetric SU(N) Gauge Theory
arXiv:hep-th/9411057 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.3931
Abstract
We present an exact description of the metric on the moduli space of vacua and the spectrum of massive states for four dimensional N=2 supersymmetric SU(n) gauge theories. The moduli space of quantum vacua is identified with the moduli space of a special set of genus n-1 hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces.
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