Metastable vacua in perturbed Seiberg-Witten theories

Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 405-427

  Ooguri, Hirosi ^a,b   Ookouchi, Yutaka ^a   Park, Chang Soon ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 45749139661     PISSN: 10950761     EISSN: 10950753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/ATMP.2008.v12.n2.a5     Document Type: Article

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