Surveying pseudomoduli: The good, the bad and the incalculable

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Intriligator, Kenneth ^a   Shih, David ^b   Sudano, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetric gauge theory; Supersymmetry and duality; Supersymmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650246150     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/106     Document Type: Article

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