Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-03-08
JHEP 9804:005,1998
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
24 pages, Latex
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/1998/04/005
Using standard field theory techniques we compute perturbative and instanton contributions to the Coulomb branch of three-dimensional supersymmetric QCD with N=2 and N=4 supersymmetry and gauge group SU(2). For the N=4 theory with one massless flavor, we confirm the proposal of Seiberg and Witten that the Coulomb branch is the double-cover of the centered moduli space of two BPS monopoles constructed by Atiyah and Hitchin. Introducing a hypermultiplet mass term, we show that the asymptotic metric on the Coulomb branch coincides with the metric on Dancer's deformation of the monopole moduli space. For the N=2 theory with $N_f$ flavors, we compute the one-loop corrections to the metric and complex structure on the Coulomb branch. We then determine the superpotential including one-loop effects around the instanton background. These calculations provide an explicit check of several results previously obtained by symmetry and holomorphy arguments.
Dorey Nicholas
Tong David
Vandoren Stefan
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