Duality in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
Michael E. Peskin
Abstract
These lectures provide an introduction to the behavior of strongly-coupled supersymmetric gauge theories. After a discussion of the effective Lagrangian in nonsupersymmetric and supersymmetric field theories, I analyze the qualitative behavior of the simplest illustrative models. These include supersymmetric QCD for Nf < Nc, in which the superpotential is generated nonperturbatively, N=2 SU(2) Yang-Mills theory (the Seiberg-Witten model), in which the nonperturbative behavior of the effective coupling is described geometrically, and supersymmetric QCD for Nf large, in which the theory illustrates a non-Abelian generalization of electric-magnetic duality. [Lectures presented at the 1996 TASI Summer School, to appear in the proceedings.]
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