Instanton recursion relations for the effective prepotential in N=2 super-Yang–Mills Original Research Article

Linear recursion relations for the instanton corrections to the effective prepotential of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with an arbitrary number of hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation of an arbitrary classical gauge group are derived. The construction proceeds from the Seiberg–Witten solutions and the renormalization group type equations for the prepotential. Successive iterations of these recursion relations allow us to simply obtain instanton corrections to arbitrarily high order, which we exhibit explicitly up to 6th order. For gauge groups SU(2) and SU(3), our results agree with previous ones.