Moduli stabilisation in heterotic string compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2006, Pages 115-150

  De Carlos, Beatriz ^a,d   Micu, Andrei ^a,e   Gurrieri, Sebastien ^b   Lukas, André ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

Author keywords

Superstring Vacua; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645683335     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/005     Document Type: Article

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