A note on obstinate tachyons in classical dS solutions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Danielsson, U H ^a   Shiu, G ^b,c   Van Riet, T ^d   Wrase, T ^e  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876271044     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2013)138     Document Type: Article

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