Brane inflation and moduli stabilization on twisted tori

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gur Ari, Guy ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

dS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893849231     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2014)179     Document Type: Article

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