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Universal Class of Type-IIB Flux Vacua with Analytic Mass Spectrum

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-12 v3

Abstract

We report on a new class of flux vacua generically present in Calabi-Yau compactifications of type-IIB string theory. At these vacua, the mass spectrum of the complete axio-dilaton/complex structure sector is given, to leading order in α\alpha' and gsg_s, by a simple analytic formula independent of the choice of Calabi-Yau. We provide a method to find these vacua, and construct an ensemble of 17,05417,054 solutions for the Calabi-Yau hypersurface WP[1,1,1,6,9]4\mathbb{WP}_{[1,1,1,6,9]}^4, where the masses of the axio-dilaton and the 272272 complex structure fields can be explicitly computed.

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@article{arxiv.2011.13953,
  title  = {Universal Class of Type-IIB Flux Vacua with Analytic Mass Spectrum},
  author = {Jose J. Blanco-Pillado and Kepa Sousa and Mikel A. Urkiola and Jeremy M. Wachter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.13953},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures; v2: fixed typos, added references; v3: fixed typos, added appendix on estimate of the number of vacua