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Dynamical Breaking of Supersymmetry

Edward Witten
- 05 Oct 1981 - 
- Vol. 188, Iss: 3, pp 513-554
TLDR
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.
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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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Domain wall junction in N=2 supersymmetric QED in four-dimensions

TL;DR: In this article, an exact solution of domain wall junction is obtained in N = 2 supersymmetric (SUSY) QED with three massive hypermultiplets, and the junction preserves two out of eight SUSY charges.
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The Power of Perturbation Theory

TL;DR: In this article, a geometrical approach based on the Picard-Lefschetz theory is used to characterize the conditions under which perturbative expansions lead to exact results.
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Extended Supersymmetries and the Dirac Operator

TL;DR: In this article, a relation between the number of supercharges and restrictions on the geometry of the underlying spaces as well as the admissible gauge field configurations was derived for supersymmetric quantum mechanical systems in arbitrary dimensions on curved spaces with nontrivial gauge fields.
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Self-isospectrality, mirror symmetry, and exotic nonlinear supersymmetry

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied supersymmetry of a self-isospectral one-gap Poschl-Teller system in the light of a mirror symmetry that is based on spatial and shift reflections.
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Supersymmetry as a method of obtaining new superintegrable systems with higher order integrals of motion

TL;DR: The main result of as mentioned in this paper is that from supersymmetric quantum mechanics, one can generate new superintegrable Hamiltonians with quadratic and quintic integrals and an integral of order seven.
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A new proof of the positive energy theorem

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Recent Developments in Gauge Theories

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Chiral-symmetry breakdown in large-N chromodynamics

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that in the limit of a large number of colors, under reasonable assumptions, this symmetry group must spontaneously break down to diagonal σ(n) under chiral conditions.
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On constrained instantons

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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