Seiberg-Witten Systems and Whitham Hierarchies: a Short Review

Abstract

We briefly review the Whitham hierarchies and their applications to integrable systems of the Seiberg-Witten type. The simplest example of the N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) pure gauge theory is considered in detail and the corresponding Whitham solutions are found explicitely.

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