Seeing through the string landscape - A string hunter's companion in particle physics and cosmology

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Lüst, Dieter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

D branes; Flux compactifications; Intersecting branes models; Large extra dimensions; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650242996     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/149     Document Type: Article

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