A review of distributions on the string landscape

International Journal of Modern Physics A

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 3441-3472

  Kumar, Jason ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flux vacua; Phenomenology; String theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746640864     PISSN: 0217751X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X06033027     Document Type: Review

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