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Stability and vacuum energy in open string models with broken supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-08 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We construct type I string models with supersymmetry broken by compactification that are non-tachyonic and have exponentially small effective potential at one-loop. All open string moduli can be stabilized, while the closed string moduli remain massless at one-loop. The backgrounds of interest have rigid Wilson lines by the use of stacked branes, and some models should have heterotic duals. We also present non-tachyonic backgrounds with positive potentials of runaway type at one-loop. This class of models could be used to test various swampland conjectures.

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@article{arxiv.1812.09714,
  title  = {Stability and vacuum energy in open string models with broken supersymmetry},
  author = {Steven Abel and Emilian Dudas and Daniel Lewis and Herve Partouche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.09714},
  year   = {2020}
}

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1+53 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables

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