Finiteness of flux vacua from geometric transitions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Torroba, Gonzalo ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; Gauge gravity correspondence; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947662516     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/061     Document Type: Article

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