Heterotic M-theory, warped geometry and the cosmological constant problem

Fortschritte der Physik

Volumn 49, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 163-272

  Krause, Axel ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1002/1521-3978(200102)49:1/3<163::AID-PROP163>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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