Exact Effective Superpotential for SO(N_c) Gauge Theory with $N_f$ Flavors

Abstract

Motivated by the duality conjecture of Dijkgraaf and Vafa between supersymmetric gauge theories and matrix models, we derive the effective superpotential of N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory with gauge group SO(N_c) and arbitrary tree-level polynomial superpotential of one chiral superfield in the adjoint representation and $N_f$ fundamental matter multiplets.

1+13 pages, LaTex; JHEP3.cls, typos corrected; references added