Massive IIA flux compactifications and U-dualities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Banks, Thomas ^a,b   Van Den Broek, Korneel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; String duality; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947623166     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/068     Document Type: Article

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