Nonrenormalization of flux superpotentials in string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Burgess, Clifford P ^a,b   Escoda, Cristina ^c   Quevedo, Fernando ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745742605     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/06/044     Document Type: Article

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