A special road to AdS vacua

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Cassani, Davide ^a   Ferrara, Sergio ^b,c,d   Marrani, Alessio ^e   Morales, Jose F ^f   Samtleben, Henning ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; Supergravity models; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954941436     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)027     Document Type: Article

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