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Dynamical Breaking of Supersymmetry

05 Oct 1981-Nuclear Physics (North-Holland)-Vol. 188, Iss: 3, pp 513-554
TL;DR: In this article, general conditions for dynamical supersymmetry breaking are discussed and examples are given (in 0 + 1 and 2 + 1 dimensions) in which such a program in four dimensions is possible.
About: This article is published in Nuclear Physics.The article was published on 1981-10-05. It has received 3270 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supersymmetry breaking & Symmetry breaking.
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Ian Affleck1
TL;DR: In this article, a simple method is presented for doing systematic constrained instanton calculations in models such as φ4 or Higgs theories where the presence of a mass term prevents the existence of a classical solution.

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  • ...For a discussion of theories with no classical instanton solution, see recent work by Affleck [ 20 ].)...

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