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Landskepticism: or Why Effective Potentials Don't Count String Models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

This paper is a synthesis of talks I gave at the Cargese Workshop in June 2004 and the Munich Conference on Superstring Vacua in November 2004. I present arguments which show that the landscape of string theory is not a well established feature of the theory, as well as a brief discussion of the phenomenological prospects of the landscape and the use of the anthropic principle.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0412129,
  title  = {Landskepticism: or Why Effective Potentials Don't Count String Models},
  author = {T. Banks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0412129},
  year   = {2007}
}

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