Emerging potentials in higher-derivative gauged chiral models coupled to N = 1 supergravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Farakos, Fotis ^a   Kehagias, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Supergravity Models; Superspaces; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870333811     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2012)077     Document Type: Article

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