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On Affleck-Dine-Seiberg Superpotential and Magnetic Monopoles in Supersymmetric QCD

N. Michael Davies, Valentin V. Khoze

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9911112

Abstract

Certain exact results in supersymmetric gauge theories are generated by non-perturbative effects different from instantons. In supersymmetric QCD with N colours and Nf fundamental flavours we examine the Affleck-Dine-Seiberg (ADS) superpotential using controlled semi-classical analysis. We show how for Nf < N-1 the ADS superpotential arises from monopole contributions to the path integral of the supersymmetric gauge theory compactified on R3*S1. These are the monopole effects leading to gaugino condensation and confinement of the low-energy SU(N-Nf) supersymmetric gauge theory.

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