Asymmetric orbifolds, non-geometric fluxes and non-commutativity in closed string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Condeescu, Cezar ^a   Florakis, Ioannis ^b,c   Lüst, Dieter ^b,c  

^a HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860689452     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)121     Document Type: Article

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