Chiral cosmic strings in supergravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 931-946

  Jeannerot, Rachel ^a   Postma, Marieke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Supergravity Models; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444450874     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/12/043     Document Type: Article

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