ON ELECTRIC-MAGNETIC DUALITY

Authors
NAHM W
Citation
W. Nahm, ON ELECTRIC-MAGNETIC DUALITY, Nuclear physics. B, 1997, pp. 91-96
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B → ACNP
ISSN journal
05503213
Year of publication
1997
Supplement
58
Pages
91 - 96
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1997):<91:OED>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
As shown by Seiberg and Witten, electric-magnetic duality allows to ca lculate the central charges of N = 2 supersymmetric theories with mass less hypermultiplets as derivatives of simple modular forms. A better understanding of the physics of small magnetic charge may come from th e consideration of s-wave fermions in the background of the monopoles.