Realistic D-brane models on warped throats: Fluxes, hierarchies and moduli stabilization

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 843-878

  Cascales, Juan F G ^a   Del Moral, Maria Pilar García ^a   Uranga, Angel M ^a   Quevedo, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D branes; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044461885     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/02/031     Document Type: Article

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