Effective supergravity actions for conifold transitions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2005, Pages 367-402

  Mohaupt, Thomas ^a   Saueressig, Frank ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

M Theory; P branes; Supergravity Models; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044476686     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/018     Document Type: Article

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