Marginal deformations of vacua with massive boson-fermion degeneracy symmetry

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 834, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 273-315

  Florakis, Ioannis ^a   Kounnas, Costas ^a   Toumbas, Nicolaos ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

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EID: 77952900622     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.03.020     Document Type: Article

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