Old Ideas for New Physicists III: String Theory Parameters are NOT Vacuum Expectation Values
High Energy Physics - Theory
2025-01-30 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
I review, for the benefit of younger physicists, arguments proposed at the beginning of the 21st century, which show that it is misleading to think of the parameters in string theory models of quantum gravity as vacuum expectation values of fields.
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@article{arxiv.2501.17697,
title = {Old Ideas for New Physicists III: String Theory Parameters are NOT Vacuum Expectation Values},
author = {T. Banks},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.17697},
year = {2025}
}
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