On the existence of states saturating the Bogomol'nyi bound in N = 4 supersymmetry

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 377, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 67-75

  Porrati, Massimo ^a,b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

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EID: 0043189939     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00346-2     Document Type: Article

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