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The Moduli Space of N=2 SUSY QCD and Duality in N=1 SUSY QCD

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arxiv hep-th/9603042 v1 pith:TOXQY2M4 submitted 1996-03-07 hep-th hep-ph

The Moduli Space of N=2 SUSY QCD and Duality in N=1 SUSY QCD

P.C. Argyres , M.R. Plesser , N. Seiberg This is my paper
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We analyze in detail the moduli space of vacua of N=2 SUSY QCD with n_c colors and n_f flavors. The Coulomb branch has submanifolds with non-Abelian gauge symmetry. The massless quarks and gluons at these vacua are smoothly connected to the underlying elementary quarks and gluons. Upon breaking N=2 by an N=1 preserving mass term for the adjoint field the theory flows to N=1 SUSY QCD. Some of the massless quarks and gluons on the moduli space of the N=2 theory become the magnetic quarks and gluons of the N=1 theory. In this way we derive the duality in N=1 SUSY QCD by identifying its crucial building blocks---the magnetic degrees of freedom---using only semiclassical physics and the non-renormalization theorem.

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