A wave-function for stringy universes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Kounnas, Costas ^a   Troost, Jan ^a   Toumbas, Nicolaos ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Conformal field models in string theory; DS vacua in string theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953261604     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/018     Document Type: Article

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