AdS4 flux vacua in type II superstrings and their domain-wall solutions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Kounnas, Costas ^a   Lüst, Dieter ^b,d   Petropoulos, Panagiotis Marios ^c   Tsimpis, Dimitrios ^d  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

D branes; Flux compactifications; Superstring vacua; Supersymmetric effective theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948907249     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/051     Document Type: Article

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