Charting the landscape of N = 4 flux compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Dibitetto, Giuseppe ^a   Guarino, Adolfo ^a   Roest, Diederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extended supersymmetry; Flux compactifications; Supergravity models

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053099046     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)137     Document Type: Article

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