Toroidal orientifolds in IIA with general NS-NS fluxes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Ihi, Matthias ^a   Robbins, Daniel ^a   Wrase, Timm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; String duality; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953278675     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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