Is there a string theory landscape?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1549-1583

  Banks, Tom ^a   Dine, Michael ^a   Gorbatov, Elie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

Author keywords

Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

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EID: 23044469006     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/08/058     Document Type: Article

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