Weakly-coupled IIA flux compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Palti, Eran ^a   Tasinato, Gianmassimo ^b   Ward, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

DS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; String duality; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249161553     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/084     Document Type: Article

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