Does Gravitation Resolve the Ambiguity Among Supersymmetry Vacua?

Weinberg, Steven

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1776

Does Gravitation Resolve the Ambiguity Among Supersymmetry Vacua?

Steven Weinberg
(
- Texas U.
)

1982

4 pages

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Phys.Rev.Lett. 48 (1982) 1776-1779

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1776

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Globally supersymmetric theories often have several degenerate supersymmetric vacua. Gravitation splits this degeneracy in such a way that at most one of these vacuum solutions has energy density and cosmological constant equal to zero, while all the rest have negative energy density. Nevertheless, the vacuum with vanishing energy density is stable against decay into the others.

SUPERSYMMETRY
GAUGE FIELD THEORY: VACUUM STATE
GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(N)
ENERGY: DENSITY
COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT

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