The emperor's last clothes? Overlooking the string theory landscape

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Schellekens, A N ^a,b  

^a NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 47749138931     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/71/7/072201     Document Type: Article

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