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Identifying string theory vacua with desired physical properties at low energies requires searching through high-dimensional solution spaces - collectively referred to as the string landscape. We highlight that this search problem is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Alex Cole , Sven Krippendorf , Andreas Schachner , Gary Shiu

We propose deep reinforcement learning as a model-free method for exploring the landscape of string vacua. As a concrete application, we utilize an artificial intelligence agent known as an asynchronous advantage actor-critic to explore…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 James Halverson , Brent Nelson , Fabian Ruehle

We apply generative models to a key problem in the string compactification program, namely construction of type IIB string vacua. To this end, we make use of a Bayesian Flow Network, a generative model capable of handling discrete data, to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Moritz Walden , Magdalena Larfors

We study properties of flux vacua in type IIB string theory in several simple but illustrative models. We initiate the study of the relative frequencies of vacua with vanishing superpotential W=0 and with certain discrete symmetries. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 Oliver DeWolfe , Alexander Giryavets , Shamit Kachru , Washington Taylor

We present deep observations in targeted regions of the string landscape through a combination of analytic and dedicated numerical methods. Specifically, we devise an algorithm designed for the systematic construction of Type IIB flux vacua…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-08 Aman Chauhan , Michele Cicoli , Sven Krippendorf , Anshuman Maharana , Pellegrino Piantadosi , Andreas Schachner

This article is the author's PhD thesis. After a review of string vacua obtained through compactification (with and wothout fluxes), it presents and describes various aspects of the Landscape of string vacua. At first it gives an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-07-04 Roberto Valandro

We review some basic flux vacua counting techniques and results, focusing on the distributions of properties over different regions of the landscape of string vacua and assessing the phenomenological implications. The topics we discuss…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Jason Kumar

Persistent homology computes the multiscale topology of a data set by using a sequence of discrete complexes. In this paper, we propose that persistent homology may be a useful tool for studying the structure of the landscape of string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Alex Cole , Gary Shiu

We present a data-driven investigation of the exhaustive ensemble of no-scale type IIB flux vacua constructed in \cite{Chauhan:2025rdj}. Using a combination of linear and non-linear dimensionality-reduction techniques, we analyse both flux…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Aman Chauhan , Michele Cicoli , Sven Krippendorf , Anshuman Maharana , Pellegrino Piantadosi , Andreas Schachner

One of the central problems of string-phenomenology is to find stable vacua in the four dimensional effective theories which result from compactification. We present an algorithmic method to find all of the vacua of any given…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 James Gray , Yang-Hui He , Anton Ilderton , Andre Lukas

Sampling string flux vacua enables us to study structures in the string landscape. Here we demonstrate that sampling at large number of moduli is possible for the simplified landscape model of ADK. Using dimensional reduction, we identify…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-03 Sven Krippendorf , Valentí Vall Camell

Moduli stabilisation in string compactifications with many light scalars remains a major blind-spot in the string landscape. In these regimes, analytic methods cease to work for generic choices of UV parameters which is why numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-13 Abhishek Dubey , Sven Krippendorf , Andreas Schachner

In this paper, we employ genetic algorithms to explore the landscape of type IIB flux vacua. We show that genetic algorithms can efficiently scan the landscape for viable solutions satisfying various criteria. More specifically, we consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Alex Cole , Andreas Schachner , Gary Shiu

Identifying flux vacua in string theory with stabilized complex structure moduli presents a significant challenge, necessitating the minimization of a scalar potential complicated by infinitely many exponential corrections. In order to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-19 Thomas W. Grimm , Damian van de Heisteeg

We use methods from topological data analysis to study the topological features of certain distributions of string vacua. Topological data analysis is a multi-scale approach used to analyze the topological features of a dataset by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Michele Cirafici

We explicitly construct and study the statistics of flux vacua for type IIB string theory on an orientifold of the Calabi-Yau hypersurface $P^4_{[1,1,2,2,6]}$, parametrised by two relevant complex structure moduli. We solve for these moduli…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Joseph P. Conlon , Fernando Quevedo

Understanding supersymmetric flux vacua is essential in order to connect string theory to observable physics. In this thesis, flux vacua are studied by making use of two mathematical frameworks: SU(n)-structures and generalised complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-10 Daniël Prins

The landscape of string vacua is very large, but generally expected to be finite in size. Enumerating the number and properties of the vacua is an important task for both the landscape and the swampland, in part to gain a deeper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 Gregory J. Loges , Gary Shiu

We study type IIA string theory compactified on Calabi-Yau fourfolds and heterotic string theory compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds times a two-torus. We derive the resulting effective theories which have two space-time dimensions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-03 Michael Haack , Jan Louis , Monika Marquart

We address the inverse problem in Type IIB flux compactifications of identifying flux vacua with targeted phenomenological properties such as specific superpotential values or tadpole constraints using conditional generative models. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Sven Krippendorf , Zhimei Liu
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