Exploring a simple sector of the Einstein-Maxwell landscape
Abstract
We explore the four dimensional Einstein-Maxwell landscape as a toy model in which we can formulate a sphere compactification stabilized by an electromagnetic field. Replacing the compactification sphere by J spheres, we obtain a simple sector of the (2J+2)-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell landscape. In this toy model, we analyze some properties which are very difficult to uncover in the string theory landscape, including: complete moduli stabilization, stability conditions, and state counting. We also show how to construct anthropic states in this model. A detailed comparison between the main features of this landscape and the Bousso-Polchinski landscape is given. We finally speculate on the impact of these phenomena in the string theory landscape.
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@article{arxiv.1207.4662,
title = {Exploring a simple sector of the Einstein-Maxwell landscape},
author = {Cesar Asensio and Antonio Segui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.4662},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
69 pages, 16 figures, some references added