Half-BPS cosmic string in N=2 supergravity in the presence of a dilaton

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Esole, Mboyo ^a   Sousa, Kepa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extended supersymmetry; Supergravity models; Supersymmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947612619     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/079     Document Type: Article

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