Factorization of Seiberg-Witten curves and compactification to three dimensions

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Published 29 March 2004 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Rutger Boels et al JHEP03(2004)010 DOI 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/03/010

1126-6708/2004/03/010

Abstract

We continue our study of nonperturbative superpotentials of four-dimensional Script N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories with gauge group U(N) on Bbb R3 × S1, broken to Script N = 1 due to a classical superpotential. In a previous paper [1] we discussed how the low-energy quantum superpotential can be obtained by substituting the Lax matrix of the underlying integrable system directly into the classical superpotential. In this paper we prove algebraically that this recipe yields the correct factorization of the Seiberg-Witten curves, which is an important check of the conjecture. We will also give an independent proof using the algebraic-geometrical interpretation of the underlying integrable system.

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