Membrane instantons and de Sitter vacua

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Davidse, Marijn ^a   Saueressig, Frank ^a   Theis, Ulrich ^b   Vandoren, Stefan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nonperturbative Effects; p branes; Supergravity Models; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044441296     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/09/065     Document Type: Article

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