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D=4 N=2 super Yang-Mills theory

Urs Schreiber
physics, mathematical physics, philosophy of physics theory (physics), model (physics) experiment, measurement, computable physics Axiomatizations Tools Structural phenomena Types of quantum field thories examples The special case of super Yang-Mills theory over a spacetime of dimension 4 and with supersymmetry. A speciality of , SYM is that its moduli space of vacua has two “branches” called the Coulomb branch and the Higgs branch. This is the content of what is now called Seiberg-Witten...