Dynamics of warped flux compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Shiu, Gary ^a   Underwood, Bret ^a   Torroba, Gonzalo ^b   Douglas, Michael R ^b,c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison ^*  (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; Supersymmetric effective theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249127225     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/024     Document Type: Article

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