M-theory and type IIA flux compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  McOrist, Jock ^a,b   Sethi, Savdeep ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; M Theory; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876243791     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2012)122     Document Type: Article

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