Type IIB flux vacua from the string worldsheet

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Linch III, William D ^a   McOrist, Jock ^b   Vallilo, Brenno Carlini ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conformal field models in string theory; Flux compactifications; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149288432     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/042     Document Type: Article

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