ABCD of instantons.pdfVIP

a r X i v : h e p - t h / 0 4 0 4 2 2 5 v 2 6 M a y 2 0 0 4 hep-th/0404225 IHES/P/04/19 ITEP-TH-17/04 ABCD of instantons Nikita Nekrasov1 and Sergey Shadchin Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques 35 route de Chartres, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, FRANCE email: nikita@ihes.fr, chadtchi@ihes.fr Abstract We solve N = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories for arbitrary classical gauge group, i.e. SU(N), SO(N), Sp(N). In particular, we derive the prepotential of the low-energy effective theory, and the corresponding Seiberg-Witten curves. We manage to do this without resolving singularities of th