Stability, tunneling and flux changing de Sitter transitions in the large volume string scenario

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  De Alwis, S ^a,b   Gupta, R ^b   Hatefi, E ^b   Quevedo, F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Superstring vacua; Supersymmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892386926     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)179     Document Type: Article

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