The Coulomb Phase of N=2 Supersymmetric QCD

Abstract

We present an explicit non-perturbative solution of N=2 supersymmetric SU(N_c) gauge theory with N_f \le 2N_c flavors generalizing results of Seiberg and Witten for N_c=2.

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