The string landscape, black holes and gravity as the weakest force

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Arkani Hamed, Nima ^a   Motl, Lubo ^a   Nicolis, Alberto ^a   Vafa, Cumrun ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black holes in string theory; Gauge symmetry; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547699195     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/060     Document Type: Article

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