Low energy supersymmetry from non-geometry

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Palti, Eran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; String duality; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748955213     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/011     Document Type: Article

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