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a r X i v : h e p - t h / 9 7 1 2 0 2 9 v 2 8 J a n 1 9 9 8 OU-HET 284 hep-th/9712029 December 1997 On the Baryonic Branch Root of N = 2 MQCD Toshio Nakatsu, Kazutoshi Ohta and Takashi Yokono Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560, JAPAN Abstract We investigate the brane exchange in the framework of N = 2 MQCD by using a specific family of M fivebrane configurations relevant to describe the baryonic branch root. An exchange of M fivebranes is realized in the Taub-NUT geometry and controlled by the moduli parameter of the configurations. This family also provides two different descriptions of the root. These descriptions are examined carefully using the Taub-NUT geometry. It is shown that they have the same baryonic branch and are shifted each other by the brane exchange. 1 Introduction Recently, many interesting results about supersymmetric gauge field theories in various dimen- sions have been obtained by analyzing the effective theory on the worldvolume of branes in superstring theory. These field theories can be realized by branes mostly in Type IIA or Type IIB superstring theory, but particularly an interesting configuration, which describes N = 2 supersymmetric QCD, has been proposed in [1] within the framework of M-theory. In this construction a mysterious hyper-elliptic curve, which is used for the description of the exact so- lution of the Coulomb branch of N = 2 supersymmetric QCD, appears as a part of a M-theory fivebrane. This M-theory fivebrane description of QCD is called as MQCD for short. It is pointed out [2, 3, 4, 5] that there exist various dualities between supersymmetric gauge field theories and these dualities play an important role for our understanding of their non- perturbative dynamics. Several steps to clarify an origin of these dualities from the string theory viewpoint have been taken. For example, the mirror symmetry in three-dimensional gauge theory besides the non-Abelian duality i