Compactification on negatively curved manifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Douglas, Michael R ^a,b   Kallosh, Renata ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical theories of gravity; DS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Supergravity models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955009734     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)004     Document Type: Article

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