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  "abstract": "A bstract : Motivated by the idea that consistent quantum field theories should admit a finite description, we investigate the complexity of effective field theories using the framework of effective o-minimality. Our focus is on quantifying the geometric and logical information required to describe moduli spaces and quantum-corrected couplings. As a concrete setting, we study pure 𝒩 = 2 super-Yang-Mills theory along its quantum moduli space using Seiberg-Witten elliptic curves. We argue that the complexity computation should be organized in terms of local cells that cover the near-boundary regions where additional states become light, each associated with an appropriate duality frame. These duality frames are crucial for keeping the global complexity finite: insisting on a single frame extending across all such limits would yield a divergent complexity measure. This case study illustrates how tame geometry uses dualities to yield finite-complexity descriptions of effective theories and points towards a general framework for quantifying the complexity of the space of effective field theories.",
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  "title": "On the complexity of effective theories. Seiberg-Witten theory",
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