Tensor modes on the string theory landscape

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Westphal, Alexander ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

dS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876394305     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)054     Document Type: Article

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