The fate of nearly supersymmetric vacua

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Dine, Michael ^a   Festuccia, Guido ^a   Morisse, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

Author keywords

Models of Quantum Gravity; Nonperturbative Effects; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350023075     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/013     Document Type: Article

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