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N=2 Supersymmetric Theories, Dyonic Charges and Instantons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-08-10 v1

Abstract

This paper contains the results of our investigations of BPS instantons and of our work on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories. The BPS instantons we study appear in type II string theory compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds. In the corresponding four-dimensional effective supergravity actions the BPS instantons arise as finite action solutions to the Euclidean equations of motion. For N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories we construct general Lagrangians involving gauge groups with (non-abelian) electric and magnetic (dyonic) charges. In this work a coupling to hypermultiplets is included.

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@article{arxiv.0708.1262,
  title  = {N=2 Supersymmetric Theories, Dyonic Charges and Instantons},
  author = {Mathijs de Vroome},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.1262},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

125 pages, 2 tables, based on Ph.D. thesis