The Effective prepotential of N=2 supersymmetric SO(N(c)) and Sp(N(c)) gauge theories

Sep, 1996
13 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 489 (1997) 211-222
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Report number:
  • UCLA-96-TEP-32

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Abstract:
We calculate the effective prepotentials for N=2 supersymmetric SO(N_c) and Sp(N_c) gauge theories, with an arbitrary number of hypermultiplets in the defining representation, from restrictions of the prepotentials for suitable N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with unitary gauge groups. (This extends previous work in which the prepotential for N=2 supersymmetric SU(N_c) gauge theories was evaluated from the exact solution constructed out of spectral curves.) The prepotentials have to all orders the logarithmic singularities of the one-loop perturbative corrections, as expected from non-renormalization theorems. We evaluate explicitly the contributions of one- and two-instanton processes.
  • gauge field theory: SO(N)
  • gauge field theory: Sp(N)
  • supersymmetry
  • effective potential
  • potential: prepotential
  • field theory: instanton