Moduli Stabilization from Fluxes in a Simple IIB Orientifold
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
We study novel type IIB compactifications on the T^6/Z_2 orientifold. This geometry arises in the T-dual description of Type I theory on T^6, and one normally introduces 16 space-filling D3-branes to cancel the RR tadpoles. Here, we cancel the RR tadpoles either partially or fully by turning on three-form flux in the compact geometry. The resulting (super)potential for moduli is calculable. We demonstrate that one can find many examples of N=1 supersymmetric vacua with greatly reduced numbers of moduli in this system. A few examples with N>1 supersymmetry or complete supersymmetry breaking are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0201028,
title = {Moduli Stabilization from Fluxes in a Simple IIB Orientifold},
author = {Shamit Kachru and Michael Schulz and Sandip Trivedi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0201028},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
49 pages, harvmac big; v2, corrected some typos