Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1996-07-08
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A12 (1997) 4907-4932
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
32 pages, latex2e, no figures, uses amsfonts package
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X97002620
Low--energy limits of N=2 supersymmetric field theories in the Higgs branch are described in terms of a non--linear 4--dimensional sigma--model on a \hk target space, classically obtained as a \hk quotient of the original flat hypermultiplet space by the gauge group. We review in a pedagogical way this construction, and illustrate it in various examples, with special attention given to the singularities emerging in the low--energy theory. In particular, we thoroughly study the Higgs branch singularity of Seiberg--Witten $SU(2)$ theory with $N_f$ flavors, interpreted by Witten as a small instanton singularity in the moduli space of one instanton on $\RR^4$. By explicitly evaluating the metric, we show that this Higgs branch coincides with the Higgs branch of a $U(1)$ N=2 SUSY theory with the number of flavors predicted by the singularity structure of Seiberg--Witten's theory in the Coulomb phase. We find another example of Higgs phase duality, namely between the Higgs phases of $U(N_c)\; N_f$ flavors and $U(N_f-N_c)\; N_f$ flavors theories, by using a geometric interpretation due to Biquard et al. This duality may be relevant for understanding Seiberg's conjectured duality $N_c \leftrightarrow N_f-N_c$ in N=1 SUSY $SU(N_c)$ gauge theories.
Antoniadis Ignatios
Pioline Boris
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