On metastable vacua in perturbed N = 2 theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Auzzi, Roberto ^a   Rabinovici, Eliezer ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Extended Supersymmetry; Supersymmetry and Duality; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955873711     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)044     Document Type: Article

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