Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu, Sergei Gukov
Published 1998-04-07, updated 1998-07-21Version 3
Three dimensional N=2 gauge theories with arbitrary gauge group and fundamental flavors are engineered from degenerations of Calabi-Yau four-folds. We show how Coulomb and Higgs branches emerge in the geometric picture. The analysis of instanton generated superpotentials unravels interesting aspects of the five-brane effective action in M theory.
Comments: subsections on Sp(N) and Spin(2N+1) theories removed, 32 pages, harvmac, 6 postscript figures
Journal: Nucl.Phys. B535 (1998) 171-196
Complexification of Gauge Theories
Mirror Symmetry, N=1 Superpotentials and Tensionless Strings on Calabi-Yau Four-Folds
Four Dimensional $\mathbf{\mathcal{N}=4}$ SYM and the Swampland
