String necklaces and primordial black holes from type IIB strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Lake, Matthew ^a   Thomas, Steve ^a   Ward, John ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black Holes in String Theory; Flux compactifications; Long strings; String theory and cosmic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149144405     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/12/033     Document Type: Article

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