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Local random potentials of high differentiability to model the Landscape

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-03-11 v2

Abstract

We generate random functions locally via a novel generalization of Dyson Brownian motion, such that the functions are in a desired differentiability class, while ensuring that the Hessian is a member of the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble (other ensembles might be chosen if desired). Potentials in such higher differentiability classes are required/desirable to model string theoretical landscapes, for instance to compute cosmological perturbations (e.g., smooth first and second derivatives for the power-spectrum) or to search for minima (e.g., suitable de Sitter vacua for our universe). Since potentials are created locally, numerical studies become feasible even if the dimension of field space is large (D ~ 100). In addition to the theoretical prescription, we provide some numerical examples to highlight properties of such potentials; concrete cosmological applications will be discussed in companion publications.

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@article{arxiv.1409.5135,
  title  = {Local random potentials of high differentiability to model the Landscape},
  author = {Thorsten Battefeld and Chirag Modi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5135},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

V2: added discussion section to match published version (conclusions unchanged); 25 pages, 5 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-22T05:59:15.675Z