Vacuum energy cancellation in a nonsupersymmetric string

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1-14

  Kachru, Shamit ^a,b   Kumar, Jason ^c   Silverstein, Eva ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 17044395007     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.106004     Document Type: Article

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