PERIODS, COUPLING-CONSTANTS AND MODULAR-FUNCTIONS IN N=2 SU(2) SYM WITH MASSIVE MATTER

Citation
A. Brandhuber et S. Stieberger, PERIODS, COUPLING-CONSTANTS AND MODULAR-FUNCTIONS IN N=2 SU(2) SYM WITH MASSIVE MATTER, International journal of modern physics A, 13(8), 1998, pp. 1329-1343
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields","Physics, Nuclear
ISSN journal
0217751X
Volume
13
Issue
8
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1329 - 1343
Database
ISI
SICI code
0217-751X(1998)13:8<1329:PCAMIN>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We determine the mass dependence of the coupling constant for N = 2 SY M with N-f = 1, 2, 3 and 4 flavors. All these cases can be unified in one analytic expression, given by a Schwarzian triangle function. More over we work out the connection to modular functions which enables us to give explicit formulas for the periods. Using the form of the J-fun ctions we are able to determine in an elegant way the couplings and mo nodromies at the superconformal points.