D-branes on general N = 1 backgrounds: Superpotentials and D-terms

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Martucci, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

D branes; Flux compactifications; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745761502     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/06/033     Document Type: Article

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