Conifolds and tunneling in the string landscape

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Ahlqvist, Pontus ^a   Greene, Brian R ^a   Kagan, David ^a   Lim, Eugene A ^a,b,c   Sarangi, Saswat ^a   Yang, I Sheng ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIF2004   (Haïti)

Author keywords

D branes; Flux compactifications; Nonperturbative effects; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053103962     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)119     Document Type: Article

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