Branches of the landscape

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 7, 2005, Pages 333-350

  Dine, Michael ^a   O'Neil, Deva ^a   Sun, Zheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

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Superstring Vacua

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EID: 23844502309     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/07/014     Document Type: Article

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