Stable non-supersymmetric supergravity solutions from deformations of the Maldacena-Nuñez background

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 247-276

  Aharony, Ofer ^a   Schreiber, Ehud ^b   Sonnenschein, Jacob ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Supergravity Models; Superstring Vacua; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044504664     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/04/011     Document Type: Article

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