Les Houches Lectures on Constructing String Vacua
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-03-11 v1
Abstract
These lectures give a detailed introduction to constructing and analyzing string vacua suitable for phenomenological model building, with particular emphasis on F-theory flux vacua. Topics include (1) general challenges and overview of some proposed scenarios, (2) an extensive introduction to F-theory and its relation to M-theory and perturbative IIB string theory, (3) F-theory flux vacua and moduli stabilization scenarios, (4) a practical geometrical toolkit for constructing string vacua from scratch, (5) statistics of flux vacua, and (6) explicit models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0803.1194,
title = {Les Houches Lectures on Constructing String Vacua},
author = {Frederik Denef},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.1194},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
127 pages, 17 figures