Computing brane and flux superpotentials in F-theory compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Grimm, Thomas W ^a   Ha, Tae Won ^a   Klemm, Albrecht ^a   Klevers, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

D branes; F theory; Flux compactifications; String duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954896446     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2010)015     Document Type: Article

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