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Burt A. Ovrut
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 399
Citations - 18682
Burt A. Ovrut is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Heterotic string theory & Supersymmetry. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 396 publications receiving 17944 citations. Previous affiliations of Burt A. Ovrut include Humboldt State University & Institute for Advanced Study.
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Two Higgs Pair Heterotic Vacua and Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a vacuum of heterotic M-theory whose observable sector has the MSSM spectrum with the addition of one extra pair of Higgs-Higgs conjugate superfields.
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Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions and Domain Walls
TL;DR: In this paper, the initial domain wall networks, which form between different vacua, are evolved in time by computer simulation and their behavior analyzed, and it is shown that, unlike systems in thermal equilibrium, domain walls formed in biased systems persist for only a short time before decaying exponentially away.
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The Dynamics of Small Instanton Phase Transitions
TL;DR: In this paper, the small instanton transition of a five-brane colliding with one end of the S1/Z2 interval in heterotic M-theory is discussed, with emphasis on the transition moduli, their potential function and the associated nonperturbative superpotential.
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Topology and heterotic, gravitational, Lorentz and super-Weyl anomalies
TL;DR: In this paper, supergraph techniques are used to calculate the coefficients of the superdiffeomorphic, Lorentz and super-Weyl anomalies, and the superfield gravitational Wess-Zumino term is presented.
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Effective potential for spontaneously broken gauge theories and gauge hierarchies
T. Hagiwara,Burt A. Ovrut +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived an expression for the one-loop approximation to the scalar-field effective potential for spontaneously broken theories in an arbitrary R = √ √ n √ ε-gauge model with an Appelquist-Carazzone coupling constant.