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The Effective Prepotential of N=2 Supersymmetric SO(Nc) and Sp(Nc) Gauge Theories

Eric D'Hoker, I. M. Krichever, D. H. Phong

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9609145

Abstract

We calculate the effective prepotentials for N=2 supersymmetric SO(Nc) and Sp(Nc) gauge theories, with an arbitrary number of hypermultiplets in the defining representation, from restrictions of the prepotentials for suitable N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with unitary gauge groups. (This extends previous work in which the prepotential for N=2 supersymmetric SU(Nc) gauge theories was evaluated from the exact solution constructed out of spectral curves.) The prepotentials have to all orders the logarithmic singularities of the one-loop perturbative corrections, as expected from non-renormalization theorems. We evaluate explicitly the contributions of one- and two-instanton processes.

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