Published February 26, 1996 | Version v1
Journal article

The vacuum structure of N=2 super-QCD with classical gauge groups

  • 1. Rutgers - the State Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506-0055 (United States)

Description

We determine the vacuum structure of N=2 supersymmetric QCD with fundamental quarks for gauge groups SO(n) and Sp(2n), extending prior results for SU(n). The solutions are all given in terms of families of hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces of genus equal to the rank of the gauge group. In the scale-invariant cases, the solutions all have exact S-dualities which act on the couplings by subgroups of PSL(2,Z) and on the masses by outer automorphisms of the flavor symmetry. They are shown to reproduce the complete pattern of symmetry breaking on the Coulomb branch and predict the correct weak-coupling monodromies. Simple breakings with squark vevs provide further consistency checks involving strong-coupling physics. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
461
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 437-459.
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO