Heterotic-type IIA duality with fluxes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Louis, Jan ^a   Micu, Andrei ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; String duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947612104     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/026     Document Type: Article

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