The Power of duality: Exact results in 4-D SUSY field theory

Seiberg, N.

doi:10.1142/S0217751X01005705

The Power of duality: Exact results in 4-D SUSY field theory

N. Seiberg
(
- Rutgers U., Piscataway and
- Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study
)

Jun, 1995

14 pages

Part of Current topics in physics. Proceedings, Inauguration Conference of the Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP), Seoul, Korea, June 4-10, 1996. Vol. 1, 2, 4365-4376, From the standard model to grand unified theories. Proceedings, 6th Yukawa International Seminar, YKIS'95, Kyoto, Japan, August 21-25, 1995, Particles, strings and cosmology. Proceedings, 19th Johns Hopkins Workshop and 5th PASCOS Interdisciplinary Symposium, Baltimore, USA, March 22-25, 1995

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Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 16 (2001) 4365-4376,
Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl. 123 (1996) 337-347

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hep-th/9506077 [hep-th]

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RU-95-37,
IASSNS-HEP-95-46

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Abstract:

Recently the vacuum structure of a large class of four dimensional (supersymmetric) quantum field theories was determined exactly. These theories exhibit a wide range of interesting new physical phenomena. One of the main new insights is the role of ``electric-magnetic duality.'' In its simplest form it describes the long distance behavior of some strongly coupled, and hence complicated, ``electric theories'' in terms of weakly coupled ``magnetic theories.'' This understanding sheds new light on confinement and the Higgs mechanism and uncovers new phases of four dimensional gauge theories. We review these developments and speculate on the outlook.

talk: Baltimore 1995/03/22
talk: Stockholm 1994/09/19
gauge field theory: SU(N)
supersymmetry
vacuum state
duality: transformation
confinement
critical phenomena
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