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On N=2 Supersymmetric QCD with 4 Flavors

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Seiberg and Witten's proposed solution of N=2 SQCD with N_c=2 and N_F=4 is known to conflict with instanton calculations in three distinct ways. Here we show how to resolve all three discrepancies, simply by reparametrizing the elliptic curve in terms of quantities τeff0\tau^0_{eff} and u~\tilde{u} rather than τ\tau and u=<TrA2>u = < Tr A^2 > . SL(2,Z) invariance of the curve is preserved. However, there is now an infinite ambiguity in the relation between τeff0\tau^0_{eff} and τ\tau and between u~\tilde{u} and uu, corresponding to an infinite number of unknown coefficients in the instanton expansion. Thus the reinterpreted curve (unlike the cases N_F<4) no longer determines the quantum modulus u as a function of the classical VEV a.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9611016,
  title  = {On N=2 Supersymmetric QCD with 4 Flavors},
  author = {N. Dorey and V. V. Khoze and M. P. Mattis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9611016},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pp, uses harvmac.tex, reference added