Gaugino condensation and nonperturbative superpotentials in flux compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1775-1795

  Görlich, Lars ^a   Tripathy, Prasanta K ^a   Trivedi, Sandip P ^a   Kachru, Shamit ^b  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 23044443439     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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