1995/08/31 by A. Niemeyer, Niemeyer, A., Hans Peter Nilles +2 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9508173
10 pages, 1 postscript figure, uses epsf
arxiv created 1995/08/31 · openalex publication_date 1995/08/31 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The mechanism of gaugino condensation has emerged as a prime candidate for supersymmetry breakdown in low energy effective supergravity (string) models. One of the open questions in this approach concerns the size of the gauge coupling constant which is dynamically fixed through the vev of the dilaton. We argue that a nontrivial gauge kinetic function f(S) could solve the potential problem of a runaway dilaton. The actual form of f(S) might be constrained by symmetry arguments.