Cascades and collapses, "great walls" and "forbidden cities": Infinite towers of metastable vacua in supersymmetric field theories

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Dienes, Keith R ^a   Thomas, Brooks ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 61549122984     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.045001     Document Type: Article

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