# Introductory notes reviewing N=4 D=4 SuperYang Mills

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I am looking for notes and papers that treat the N=4 D=4 Super Yang Mills theory, starting from an introductory level.

I have been using different notes so far (some mentioned in my previous question), but most of the notes I have focus on other kinds of supersymmetric theories.

My main interest in this subject is to eventually understand S duality and on-shell diagrams.

Please feel free to include advanced articles pertaining to the subject. It would be nice to have a compilation of such articles.

edited Apr 10, 2015

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I'll be slowly compiling papers and notes on N=4 Super Yang Mills on this page. Over time I want to build a repository that will be useful for a graduate entering research into this subject.

Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories

Brink, Lars, Schwarz, John H.  Scherk, J.

S-duality in N = 4 Yang-Mills theories with general gauge groups

Luciano Girardello , Amit Giveon , Massimo Porrati ,Alberto Zaffaroni

Duality in supersymmetric N=2,4 gauge theories

Paolo Di Vecchia

Magnetic Monopoles, Duality, and Supersymmetry

Jeffrey A. Harvey

Notes on theories with 16 supercharges

Nathan Seiberg

answered Mar 20, 2015 by (700 points)
edited Jun 13, 2015
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Eric D'Hoker's and Dan Freedman's classic Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and the AdS/CFT Correspondence has a nice section on $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. Then you can check the nLab entry  for many many references therein. Also, usually all AdS/CFT related PhD theses include pedagological sections on the theory you want while understanding the "planar nature" does not restric in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM only so you can find info onColeman's classic textbook.

answered Mar 19, 2015 by (3,625 points)

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