Evidence for S-Duality in N=4 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

TL;DR

This paper uses D-brane methods to compute BPS states in N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory, providing evidence supporting S-duality and Montonen-Olive duality.

Contribution

It offers the first direct computation of BPS spectra that confirms the duality conjecture in N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory.

Findings

BPS spectrum matches duality predictions

Supports S-duality in N=4 gauge theory

Provides computational evidence for Montonen-Olive duality

Abstract

Using D-brane techniques, we compute the spectrum of stable BPS states in N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory, and find it is consistent with Montonen-Olive duality.