Building an explicit de Sitter

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Louis, Jan ^a   Rummel, Markus ^a   Valandro, Roberto ^a   Westphal, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

dS vacua in string theory; F Theory; Flux compactifications; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868299319     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2012)163     Document Type: Article

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