On general flux backgrounds with localized sources

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Villadoro, Giovanni ^a   Zwirner, Fabio ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

D branes; Flux compactifications; Intersecting branes models; M theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849052986     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/082     Document Type: Article

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