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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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Self-isospectral periodic potentials and supersymmetric quantum mechanics

TL;DR: In this paper, the supersymmetric quantum mechanical models with periodic potentials were discussed, and it was shown that both isospectral potentials can support zero modes, in contrast with the standard nonperiodic case where either one or neither (but not both) of the potentials has a zero mode.
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General Forms of a N-fold Supersymmetric Family

TL;DR: In this article, general forms of one family of the N -fold supersymmetry in one-dimensional quantum mechanics were reported, referred to as the type A family, which is characterized by the supercharges which are N th order in differential operators.
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Matter couplings in partially broken extended supersymmetry

TL;DR: In this article, the spontaneous breaking of N = 2 supersymmetry to N = 1 in four dimensions is described using nonlinear realizations, and the Goldstone action and the general couplings to n = 1 matter to the first nontrivial order in the scale of symmetry breaking are presented.
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Non-Abelian walls in supersymmetric gauge theories

TL;DR: In this paper, the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) multiwall solutions are constructed in supersymmetric gauge theories in five dimensions with hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation.
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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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