Four-flux and warped heterotic M-theory compactifications

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 602, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 172-200

  Curio, Gottfried ^a   Krause, Axel ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

04.65.+e; 11.25.Mj; 12.60.Jv

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EID: 0000724895     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00116-X     Document Type: Article

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