Moduli stabilization and cosmology of type IIB on SU(2)-structure orientifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Caviezel, Claudio ^a   Wrase, Timm ^b   Zagermann, Marco ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

DS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954929345     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2010)011     Document Type: Article

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