Heterotic moduli stabilization with fractional Chern-Simons invariants

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 18-

  Gukov, Sergei ^a   Kachru, Shamit ^b,c   Liu, Xiao ^b,c   McAllister, Liam ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 2442704090     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.086008     Document Type: Article

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