Finding all flux vacua in an explicit example

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Martínez Pedrera, Danny ^a   Mehta, Dhagash ^b   Rummel, Markus ^a   Westphal, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

dS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880346838     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2013)110     Document Type: Article

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