Brane/flux annihilation transitions and nonperturbative moduli stabilization

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Brown, Charles Max ^a   Dewolfe, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Flux compactifications; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649522412     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/018     Document Type: Article

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