String loop moduli stabilisation and cosmology in IIB flux compactifications

Fortschritte der Physik

Volumn 58, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 115-338

  Cicoli, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Moduli stabilisation; String cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952477722     PISSN: 00158208     EISSN: 15213978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prop.200900096     Document Type: Article

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