Flux compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 55-82

  Giryavets, Alexander ^a,c   Kachru, Shamit ^a   Tripathy, Prasanta K ^b   Trivedi, Sandip P ^b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

F Theory; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044504499     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/04/003     Document Type: Article

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