DYNAMICAL SUPERSYMMETRY BREAKING ON QUANTUM MODULI SPACES

Supersymmetry breaking by the quantum deformation of a classical modul i space is considered. A simple, non-chiral, renormalizable model is p resented to illustrate this mechanism. The well-known, chiral, SU(3) x SU(2) model and its generalizations are shown to break supersymmetry by this mechanism in the limit Lambda(2) >> Lambda(3) Other supersymme try breaking models, with classical flat directions that are only lift ed quantum mechanically, are presented. Finally, by integrating in vec tor matter, the strongly coupled region of chiral models with a dynami cally generated superpotential is shown to be continuously connected t o a weakly coupled description in terms of confined degrees of freedom , with supersymmetry broken at tree level.