Stable non-supersymmetric throats in string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Kachru, Shamit ^a,b,c   Simić, Dušan ^a,b,c   Trivedi, Sandip P ^a,b,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Compactification and string models; Flux compactifications; Gauge gravity correspondence; Technicolor and composite models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954997763     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)067     Document Type: Article

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