Scanning the landscape of flux compactifications: Vacuum structure and soft supersymmetry breaking

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  AbdusSalam, Shehu S ^a   Conlon, Joseph P ^a   Quevedo, Fernando ^a   Suruliz, Kerim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Supersymmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049076838     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/036     Document Type: Article

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