String theory landscape and the standard model of particle physics

11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG11 Meeting on General Relativity

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 148-176

  Lüst, Dieter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

D-BRANE; HETEROTIC STRINGS; MODULI SPACE; MODULI STABILIZATION; THE STANDARD MODEL;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 84893001869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812834300_0009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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