F-term strings in the Bogomolnyi limit are also BPS states

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1363-1379

  Achúcarro, Ana ^a,b   Urrestilla, Jon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044477366     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/08/050     Document Type: Article

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