Nonsupersymmetric flux vacua and perturbed N = 2 systems

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Hollands, Lotte ^a   Marsano, Joseph ^b   Papadodimas, Kyriakos ^a   Shigemori, Masaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; Supersymmetric gauge theory; Supersymmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149296353     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/102     Document Type: Article

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