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Introduction to S-Duality in N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory. (A pedagogical review of the work of Seiberg and Witten)

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arxiv hep-th/9701069 v1 pith:O5DLPCYJ submitted 1997-01-14 hep-th

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In these notes we attempt to give a pedagogical introduction to the work of Seiberg and Witten on S-duality and the exact results of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with and without matter. The first half is devoted to a review of monopoles in gauge theories and the construction of supersymmetric gauge theories. In the second half, we describe the work of Seiberg and Witten.

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