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Gauged R-symmetry and de Sitter vacua in supergravity and string theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-04-21 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A new class of metastable de Sitter vacua is presented and analyzed in N =1 supergravity and string theory with tunable (infinitesimally small) value of the cosmological constant. They are based on a gauged R-symmetry and the minimal spectrum contains a vector and a linear multiplet of the string dilaton or of a compactification modulus. In the minimum of the scalar potential supersymmetry is broken by an expectation value of both a D- and F-term.

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@article{arxiv.1403.1534,
  title  = {Gauged R-symmetry and de Sitter vacua in supergravity and string theory},
  author = {Ignatios Antoniadis and Rob Knoops},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1534},
  year   = {2016}
}

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25 pages, 1 figure