Negative energy density in Calabi-Yau compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1415-1434

  Hertog, Thomas ^a   Horowitz, Gary T ^a   Maeda, Kengo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Black Holes in String Theory; Classical Theories of Gravity; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744997453     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/05/060     Document Type: Article

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