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The Runaway Quiver

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We point out that some recently proposed string theory realizations of dynamical supersymmetry breaking actually do not break supersymmetry in the usual desired sense. Instead, there is a runaway potential, which slides down to a supersymmetric vacuum at infinite expectation values for some fields. The runaway direction is not on a separated branch; rather, it shows up as a"tadpole" everywhere on the moduli space of field expectation values.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0512347,
  title  = {The Runaway Quiver},
  author = {Kenneth Intriligator and Nathan Seiberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0512347},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, no figures. v2: reference change