Electric-Magnetic Duality and Effective Field Theories

Abstract

Lectures given by C.G. in the Advanced School on Effective Theories (Almuñecar, Granada, 1995) on duality in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills, and the coupling to gravity.

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