Soft branes in supersymmetry-breaking backgrounds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  McGuirk, Paul ^a   Shiu, Gary ^b,c,d   Ye, Fang ^b  

^a Newman Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

D branes; Flux compactifications; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865083578     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)188     Document Type: Article

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