Quantum mass and central charge of supersymmetric monopoles: Anomalies, current renormalization, and surface terms

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Rebhan, Anton ^a   Van Nieuwenhuizen, Peter ^b   Wimmer, Robert ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomalies in Field and String Theories; Renormalization Regularization and Renormalons; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745753245     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/06/056     Document Type: Article

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