Brane worlds, the cosmological constant and string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  De Alwis, Senarath P ^a   Flournoy, Alex T ^a   Irges, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Supergravity Models; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744842495     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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