Constraints on meta-stable de Sitter flux vacua

Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 187-215

  Soroush, Masoud ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 62649144753     PISSN: 10950761     EISSN: 10950753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/ATMP.2009.v13.n1.a6     Document Type: Article

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