Volume stabilization and the origin of the inflaton shift symmetry in string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 951-962

  Hsu, Jonathan P ^a   Kallosh, Renata ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Supergravity Models; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044489356     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/04/042     Document Type: Article

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