A suffcient condition for de Sitter vacua in type IIB string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rummel, Markus ^a   Westphal, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857306851     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)020     Document Type: Article

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