On the cosmology of type IIA compactifications on SU(3)-structure manifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Caviezel, Claudio ^a   Koerber, Paul ^a   Körs, Simon ^a   Lüst, Dieter ^a,b   Wrase, Timm ^a   Zagermann, Marco ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; DS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649559808     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/010     Document Type: Article

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