EXACT RESULTS AND SOFT BREAKING MASSES IN SUPERSYMMETRIC GAUGE-THEORY

We give an explicit formalism connecting softly broken supersymmetric gauge theories (with QCD as one limit) to N = 2 and N = 1 supersymmetr ic theories possessing exact solutions, using spurion fields to embed these models in an enlarged N = 1 model. The functional forms of effec tive lagrangian terms resulting from soft supersymmetry breaking are c onstrained by the symmetries of the enlarged model, although not well enough to fully determine the vacuum structure of generic softly broke n models. Nevertheless, by perturbing the exact N = 1 model results wi th sufficiently small soft breaking masses, we show that there exist n onsupersymmetric models that exhibit monopole condensation and confine ment in the same modes as the N = 1 case.