Hartle-Hawking wave-function for flux compactifications: The entropic principle

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 311-342

  Ooguri, Hirosi ^a   Vafa, Cumrun ^b   Verlinde, Erik ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Black hole; BPS state; Mini superspace; Topological string

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144516197     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-005-0022-x     Document Type: Article

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