Integrating over the Coulomb branch in N=2 gauge theory

Abstract

We review the relation of certain integrals over the Coulomb phase of $d=4$, N=2 SO(3) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with Donaldson-Witten theory. We describe a new way to write an important contact term in the theory and show how the integrals generalize to higher rank gauge groups.

12 pages, latex. Talk at the STRINGS'97 conference, Amsterdam, June 1997

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