Stabilizing dilaton and moduli vacua in string and M-theory cosmology

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 509, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 169-193

  Lukas, André ^a   Ovrut, Burt A ^a,b   Waldram, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic strings; Early universe; M theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032484396     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00494-X     Document Type: Article

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