Type i non-abelian superconductors in supersymmetric gauge theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Auzzi, Roberto ^a   Eto, Minoru ^a,b   Vinci, Walter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confinement; Extended supersymmetry; Solitons monopoles and instantons; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849015428     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/090     Document Type: Article

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