Seiberg-Witten Toda Chains and N=1 SQCD

We consider the Seiberg-Witten Toda chains arising in the context of exact solutions to N=2 SUSY Yang-Mills and their relation to the properties of N=1 SUSY gauge theories. In particular, we discuss their “perturbative” and “solitonic” degenerations and demonstrate some relations of the latter ones to the confining properties of N=1 vacua.