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Classification of Modular Symmetries in Type IIB Flux Landscape

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-10-01 v2

Abstract

In this work, we study modular symmetries in type IIB flux landscape by investigating symplectic basis transformations of period vectors on toroidal orbifolds. To fix explicit cycles of a third-cohomology basis regarding the untwisted complex structure modulus, which is necessary to construct the period vectors, we find that the following two symmetries are required for the period vectors: (i) ``Scaling duality '' which is a generalized SS-transformation of PSL(2,Z)PSL(2, \mathbb{Z}) and (ii) the modular symmetries to be consistent with symmetries derived from mass spectra of the closed string in type IIB string theory. Furthermore, by considering flux quanta on the cycles, we explore type IIB flux vacua on toroidal orientifolds and flux transformations under the modular symmetries of the period vectors.

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@article{arxiv.2502.20743,
  title  = {Classification of Modular Symmetries in Type IIB Flux Landscape},
  author = {Keiya Ishiguro and Takafumi Kai and Tatsuo Kobayashi and Yuichi Koga and Hajime Otsuka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.20743},
  year   = {2025}
}

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