Stringy corrections to Kähler potentials, SUSY breaking, and the cosmological constant problem

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1999-2019

  Balasubramanian, Vijay ^a   Berglund, Per ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

Superstring Vacua; Supersymmetry Breaking

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EID: 23044499761     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/085     Document Type: Article

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