Type II compactifications on manifolds with SU(2) × SU(2) structure

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Triendl, Hagen ^a   Louis, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; Supergravity models; Supersymmetric effective theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350015785     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/07/080     Document Type: Article

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