Catastrophic decays of compactified space-times

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 821-837

  Dine, Michael ^a   Fox, Patrick J ^a   Gorbatov, Elie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical Theories of Gravity; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044515866     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/09/037     Document Type: Article

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