Non-perturbative vacua for M-theory on G2 manifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 377-405

  De Carlos, Beatriz ^a,c   Lukas, André ^a   Morris, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

M Theory; Nonperturbative Effects; Supersymmetric Effective Theories; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044506451     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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