Towards Minkowski vacua in type II string compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Micu, Andrei ^a   Palti, Eran ^b   Tasinato, Gianmassimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; String duality; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947671920     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/104     Document Type: Article

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