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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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Improved Superconformal Gauge Conditions in the $N=1$ Supergravity {Yang-Mills} Matter System

TL;DR: In this paper, the Yang-Mills supergravity system was studied using superconformal tensor calculus, which simplifies the derivation of the component form of the Lagrangian and supersymmetry transformation laws for supergravity-matter systems.
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Comments on the Fayet-Iliopoulos term in field theory and supergravity

TL;DR: In this article, the Fayet-Iliopoulos model is analyzed and it is shown that its energy momentum tensor and supersymmetry current are not gauge invariant, while the corresponding charges are consistent.
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Coupling the gauge-invariant supersymmetric non-linear sigma model to supergravity☆

TL;DR: In this paper, the gauge-invariant supersymmetric non-linear sigma model is coupled to N = 1 supergravity in the language of Kahler geometry and the results lead to a deeper understanding of the connections between supergravity, Rinvariance and the Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term.
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The R axion from dynamical supersymmetry breaking

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the axion is massive in any model in which the cosmological constant is fine-tuned to zero through an explicit R -symmetry-breaking c constant.
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Generalised cabibbo angles in supersymmetric gauge theories

TL;DR: In this article, the generation-changing interactions of a class of low-energy supersymmetric theories are parametrised by three unitary matrices, and an estimate of those responsible for neutral gaugino flavour-changing couplings is given.
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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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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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