Geometric transitions and dynamical SUSY breaking

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 796, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-24

  Aganagic, Mina ^a   Beem, Christopher ^a   Kachru, Shamit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamical SUSY breaking; Fayet; Geometric transitions; O'Raifeartaigh; Polonyi; Retrofitting; Stringy instanton

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749153076     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.11.032     Document Type: Article

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