Uplifting and inflation with D3 branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Burgess, Cliff P ^a,b   Cline, James M ^c   Dasgupta, Keshav ^c   Firouzjahi, Hassan ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; D branes; dS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947641642     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/027     Document Type: Article

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