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Dynamical Breaking of Supersymmetry

Edward Witten
- 05 Oct 1981 - 
- Vol. 188, Iss: 3, pp 513-554
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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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Doublet-Triplet Splitting and Fat Branes

TL;DR: In this paper, the doublet-triplet splitting problem in supersymmetric SU(5) grand unified theory in five dimensions where the fifth dimension is non-compact is considered.
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On supersymmetric Minkowski vacua in IIB orientifolds

TL;DR: In this paper, the supersymmetric Minkowski vacua in IIB orientifold compactifications based on orbifolds with background fluxes and nonperturbative superpotentials is investigated.
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Clarification of the relationship between bound and scattering states in quantum mechanics: Application to 12C + alpha

TL;DR: In this paper, a supersymmetric inversion potential model was proposed to obtain bound-state properties from the phase shifts of a single wave in a phase-equivalent partner potential model.
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A New Kind of Graded Lie Algebra and Parastatistical Supersymmetry

TL;DR: In this paper, the usual $Z_2$ graded Lie algebra is generalized to a new form, which may be called $Z 2,2} graded lie algebra, which is used to study and analyse various symmetries and supersymmetries of the paraparticle systems.
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PT-symmetrized supersymmetric quantum mechanics

TL;DR: In this article, a non-Hermitian alternative to Witten's supersymmetric quantum mechanics is obtained, where supersymmetry between bosons and fermions is modelled within PT-symmetric quantum physics.
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A new proof of the positive energy theorem

TL;DR: In this article, a new proof of the positive energy theorem of classical general relativity was given and it was shown that there are no asymptotically Euclidean gravitational instantons.
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Recent Developments in Gauge Theories

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of recent developments on non-perturbative gauge fields by some of the leading experts and innovators in this field, including the Cargese Institute on "Recent Developments on 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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