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New string vacua from twistor spaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3

Abstract

We find a new family of AdS_4 vacua in IIA string theory. The internal space is topologically either the complex projective space CP^3 or the "flag manifold" SU(3)/(U(1)xU(1)), but the metric is in general neither Einstein nor Kaehler. All known moduli are stabilized by fluxes, without using quantum effects or orientifold planes. The analysis is completely ten--dimensional and does not rely on assumptions about Kaluza--Klein reduction.

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@article{arxiv.0712.1396,
  title  = {New string vacua from twistor spaces},
  author = {Alessandro Tomasiello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1396},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

19 pages. v3: published version, further minor corrections

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