Phase structure of a brane/anti-brane system at large N

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Heckman, Jonathan J ^a   Seo, Jihye ^a   Vafa, Cumrun ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Flux compactifications; Gauge gravity correspondence; Supersymmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547665051     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/073     Document Type: Article

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