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DIAS-STP/96-21 BONN-TH-96-15 ENSLAPP-L-621/96 FAU-TP3-96/20 Uniqueness of the Seiberg-Witten Effective Lagrangian 1 2 R. Flume , M. Magro , L.O’Raifeartaigh, I. Sachs and O. Schnetz 7 Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 9 9 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. 1 r Abstract a M The low energy effective Lagrangian for N = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, proposed by Seiberg and Witten is shown to be the unique solution, 4 2 assuming only that supersymmetry is unbroken and that the number of strong- coupling singularities is finite. Duality is then a consequence rather than an 2 input. v 3 2 1 1 Introduction 1 1 6 Over the last two years considerable progress in the understanding of the strong cou- 9 pling regime in N = 2 Yang-Mills theory has been made, pioneered by the work of / h Seiberg and Witten [1] where a self-consistent non-perturbative superfield effective t p- Lagrangian was found for an SU (2) gauge group. This has later been extended to e higher groups [2]. The crucial properties which make the N = 2-theory accessible for h : an exact treatment are the holomorphic properties of the effective La