Stability of flux compactifications and the pattern of supersymmetry breaking

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1837-1853

  Choi, Kiwoon ^a   Falkowski, Adam ^b   Nilles, Hans Peter ^c   Olechowski, Marek ^b   Pokorski, Stefan ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Supergravity Models; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044466964     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/076     Document Type: Article

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