De Sitter string vacua from supersymmetric D-terms

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1411-1424

  Burgess, Clifford P ^a   Kallosh, Renata ^b   Quevedo, Fernando ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044480414     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/056     Document Type: Article

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