Cubic curves from instanton counting

Abstract

We investigate the possibility to extract Seiberg-Witten curves from the formal series for the prepotential, which was obtained by the Nekrasov approach. A method for models whose Seiberg-Witten curves are not hyperelliptic is proposed. It is applied to the SU(N) model with one symmetric or antisymmetric representations as well as for SU(N1) × SU(N2) model with (N1,N2) or (N1,2) bifundamental matter. Solution are compared with known results. For the gauge group product we have checked the instanton corrections which follow from our curves against direct instanton counting computations up to two instantons. © SISSA 2006.