Fluxbranes: Moduli stabilisation and inflation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hebecker, Arthur ^a   Kraus, Sebastian C ^a   Küntzler, Moritz ^b   Lüst, Dieter ^c,d   Weigand, Timo ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873314724     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2013)095     Document Type: Article

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