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Compactification on negatively curved manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-20 v3

Abstract

We show that string/M theory compactifications to maximally symmetric space-times using manifolds whose scalar curvature is everywhere negative, must have significant warping, large stringy corrections, or both.

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@article{arxiv.1001.4008,
  title  = {Compactification on negatively curved manifolds},
  author = {Michael R. Douglas and Renata Kallosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.4008},
  year   = {2014}
}

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18 pages, JHEP3.cls

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