On Fayet-Iliopoulos terms and de Sitter vacua in supergravity: Some easy pieces

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Catino, Francesca ^a   Villadoro, Giovanni ^b   Zwirner, Fabio ^a  

^a SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalies in Field and String Theories; Extended Supersymmetry; Supergravity Models; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857320670     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)002     Document Type: Article

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