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Superpotentials of N=1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories from M-theory

Soonkeon Nam, Kyungho Oh, Sang-Jin Sin

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9707247

Abstract

We consider brane configurations in M-theory describing N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories and using the parametric representation of the brane configurations, we calculate the superpotentials for various cases including multiple gauge groups or fermions. For SU(n) N=1 SQCD with Nf fermion case (Nf < Nc), we find that the superpotential from M-theory and the gauge theory agree precisely. This gives a direct evidence of the validity of Witten's M-theory method for calculating the super potential.

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