Non-abelian supercurrents and de Sitter ground state in electroweak theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Chernodub, M N ^a,b   Faddeev, Ludvig ^c   Niemi, Antti J ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gauge symmetry; Nonperturbative effects; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649131056     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/014     Document Type: Article

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