Membrane sigma-models and quantization of non-geometric flux backgrounds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Mylonas, Dionysios ^a,b   Schupp, Peter ^a,b,c   Szabo, Richard J ^a,b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAXWELL INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential and algebraic geometry; Flux compactifications; Non commutative geometry; String duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866842717     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2012)012     Document Type: Article

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