The powers of monodromy

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  McAllister, Liam ^a   Silverstein, Eva ^b,c,d   Westphal, Alexander ^e   Wrase, Timm ^b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Flux compactifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919795037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2014)123     Document Type: Article

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