From ten to four and back again: How to generalize the geometry

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Koerber, Paul ^a   Martucci, Luca ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

D branes; Flux compactifications; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953235488     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/059     Document Type: Article

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