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Superpotential
About: Superpotential is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3836 publications have been published within this topic receiving 137867 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, a new Hamiltonian inspired covariant formula is proposed to define the superponential and the physical charges associated to a gauge symmetry. But no associated central charge is found for n ⩾ 2.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a field-theoretic derivation of the glueball superpotential is given, based on factorization of the N = 2 Seiberg-Witten curve.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the moduli-dependent effective potential arising from M-theory compactified on M 4 × X × S 1 / Z 2, when one of the boundaries supports a strongly interacting gauge sector and induces gaugino condensation, was derived.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the quantum creation of universes with compact spacelike sections that have curvature k either closed, flat, or open, i.e., $k=\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1,0,$ is studied.
Abstract: The quantum creation of universes with compact spacelike sections that have curvature k either closed, flat, or open, i.e., $k=\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}1,0,$ is studied. In the flat and open cases, the superpotential of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation is significantly modified, and as a result the qualitative behavior of a typical wave function differs from the traditional closed case. In the open case boundary conditions that include the tunneling ones are allowed but not the no-boundary choice. Restricting ourselves to the tunneling boundary condition, and applying it in turn to each of these curvatures, it is shown that quantum cosmology actually suggests that the universe is open, $k=\ensuremath{-}1.$ In all cases sufficient inflation $\ensuremath{\sim}60$ e foldings are predicted: this is an improvement over classical measures that generally are ambiguous as to whether inflation is certain to occur.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider compactifications of M-theory on 7-manifolds in the presence of 4-form fluxes, which leave at least four supercharges unbroken.
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