D-branes at del Pezzo singularities: Global embedding and moduli stabilisation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Cicoli, Michele ^a,b   Krippendorf, Sven ^c   Mayrhofer, Christoph ^d   Quevedo, Fernando ^a,e   Valandro, Roberto ^f  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866855669     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2012)019     Document Type: Article

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