Supersymmetric cubic Galileons have ghosts

Koehn, Michael; Lehners, Jean-Luc; Ovrut, Burt A.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.88.023528

Title: Supersymmetric cubic Galileons have ghosts

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Authors:: Koehn, Michael; Lehners, Jean-Luc; Ovrut, Burt A.

Publication Date:: 2013-07-23

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1104290

Resource Type:: Publisher's Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Physical Review D

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 88; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1550-7998

Publisher:: American Physical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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                    Koehn, Michael, Lehners, Jean-Luc, and Ovrut, Burt A. Supersymmetric cubic Galileons have ghosts.  United States: N. p., 2013. 
Web.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.023528.

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                    Koehn, Michael, Lehners, Jean-Luc, & Ovrut, Burt A. Supersymmetric cubic Galileons have ghosts.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.023528

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                    Koehn, Michael, Lehners, Jean-Luc, and Ovrut, Burt A. Tue .  
"Supersymmetric cubic Galileons have ghosts".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.023528.

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  title        = {Supersymmetric cubic Galileons have ghosts},

  author       = {Koehn, Michael and Lehners, Jean-Luc and Ovrut, Burt A.},

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