N=1 Curve

Abstract

N=1 curve is defined for four dimensional class S theory using Cayley-Hamilton theorem for two commuting matrices. The curve consists of three ingredients: 1: A set of N+1 degree N equations defining a curve; 2: a set of constraints relating the coefficients in the curve; 3: a canonically defined differential. We then extract from spectral curve various physical information such as the space of moduli fields, chiral ring relations, full moduli space, etc. Many examples are discussed, and the curve recovers the intricate vacua structure which often involves highly non-trivial field theory dynamics such as monopole condensation, dynamical generated superpotential, Seiberg duality, etc.