The intermediate scale branch of the landscape

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2006, Pages 4093-4109

  Dine, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

Author keywords

dS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645509272     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/01/162     Document Type: Article

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