Vacuum structure and flavor symmetry breaking in supersymmetric SO(nc) gauge theories

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 608, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 51-102

  Carlino, Giuseppe ^a   Konishi, Kenichi ^b   Prem Kumar, S ^a   Murayama, Hitoshi ^c,d  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

11.30.Hv; 12.60.Jv

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EID: 0035817505     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00253-X     Document Type: Article

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