Distribution of flux vacua around singular points in Calabi-Yau moduli space

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2006, Pages 2593-2618

  Eguchi, Tohru ^a   Tachikawa, Yuji ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential and Algebraic Geometry; Flux compactifications; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645523410     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/01/100     Document Type: Article

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