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@article{citeulike:895557, abstract = {These lectures provide an introduction to the behavior of strongly-coupled supersymmetric gauge theories. After a discussion of the effective Lagrangian in nonsupersymmetric and supersymmetric field theories, I analyze the qualitative behavior of the simplest illustrative models. These include supersymmetric QCD for \$N\_f \< N\_c\$, in which the superpotential is generated nonperturbatively, N=2 SU(2) Yang-Mills theory (the Seiberg-Witten model), in which the nonperturbative behavior of the effective coupling is described geometrically, and supersymmetric QCD for N\_f large, in which the theory illustrates a non-Abelian generalization of electric-magnetic duality. [Lectures presented at the 1996 TASI Summer School, to appear in the proceedings.]}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Peskin, Michael E.}, citeulike-article-id = {895557}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702094}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9702094}, day = {11}, eprint = {hep-th/9702094}, keywords = {duality, susy, yangmills}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2006-10-13 17:10:51}, priority = {2}, title = {Duality in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702094}, year = {1997} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:895557 L3 - citeulike-article-id:895557 N2 - These lectures provide an introduction to the behavior of strongly-coupled supersymmetric gauge theories. After a discussion of the effective Lagrangian in nonsupersymmetric and supersymmetric field theories, I analyze the qualitative behavior of the simplest illustrative models. These include supersymmetric QCD for $N_f < N_c$, in which the superpotential is generated nonperturbatively, N=2 SU(2) Yang-Mills theory (the Seiberg-Witten model), in which the nonperturbative behavior of the effective coupling is described geometrically, and supersymmetric QCD for N_f large, in which the theory illustrates a non-Abelian generalization of electric-magnetic duality. [Lectures presented at the 1996 TASI Summer School, to appear in the proceedings.] TI - Duality in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory KW - duality KW - susy KW - yangmills AU - Peskin, Michael PY - 1997/Feb/11/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702094 ER -