Moduli stabilization and inflationary cosmology with poly-instantons in type IIB orientifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Blumenhagen, Ralph ^a   Gao, Xin ^a,b   Rahn, Thorsten ^a   Shukla, Pramod ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

DS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870307455     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2012)101     Document Type: Article

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