A new handle on de sitter compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3527-3550

  Saltman, Alex ^a   Silverstein, Eva ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

dS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645505549     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/01/139     Document Type: Article

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