BPS Geodesics in N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Abstract

We introduce some techniques for making a more global analysis of the existence of geodesics on a Seiberg-Witten Riemann surface with metric $d{s}^2=|{\lambda }_{SW}{|}^2$. Because the existence of such geodesics implies the existence of BPS states in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, one can use these methods to study the BPS spectrum in various phases of the Yang-Mills theory. By way of illustration, we show how, using our new methods, one can easily recover the known results for the N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) pure gauge theory, and we show in detail how it also works for the N=2, SU(2) theory coupled to a massive adjoint matter multiplet.

23 pages, harvmac, epsf, 8 figures

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