On the taxonomy of flux vacua

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 27-46

  Giryavets, Alexander ^a,d   Kachru, Shamit ^a   Tripathy, Prasanta K ^b,c  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

F Theory; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044436668     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/08/002     Document Type: Article

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