Large-volume flux compactifications: Moduli spectrum and D3/D7 soft supersymmetry breaking

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 8, 2005, Pages 169-225

  Conlon, Joseph P ^a   Quevedo, Fernando ^a   Suruliz, Kerim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

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EID: 24944548605     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/08/007     Document Type: Article

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