Comments on the fayet-iliopoulos term in field theory and supergravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Komargodski, Zohar ^a   Seiberg, Nathan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Supersymmetric Effective Theories; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350020255     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/007     Document Type: Article

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