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We consider issues of moduli stabilization and "area codes" for type II flux compactifications, and the "Inverse Problem" and "Fake Superpotentials" for extremal (non)supersymmetric black holes in type II compactifications on (orientifold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Aalok Misra , Pramod Shukla

We present a comprehensive study of K\"ahler moduli stabilisation in Type IIB flux compactifications, combining advanced numerical techniques with analytical methods. Our JAX-based computational framework enables efficient scanning of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-02 Shehu AbdusSalam , Christopher Hughes , Fernando Quevedo , Andreas Schachner

We present stable de Sitter solutions of $\mathcal{N} = 1$ supergravity in a geometric type IIB duality frame with the addition of non-perturbative contributions. Contrary to the standard approach, we retain the moduli dependence of both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-30 Johan Blåbäck , Diederik Roest , Ivonne Zavala

We discuss prospects for stabilizing the volume modulus of N=1 supersymmetric type IIB orientifold compactifications using only perturbative corrections to the Kahler potential. Concretely, we consider the known string loop corrections and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Marcus Berg , Michael Haack , Boris Kors

Type II orientifolds based on Landau-Ginzburg models are used to describe moduli stabilization for flux compactifications of type II theories from the world-sheet CFT point of view. We show that for certain types of type IIB orientifolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Katrin Becker , Melanie Becker , Cumrun Vafa , Johannes Walcher

We derive the 3D N=1 superpotential for the closed string sector of type IIB supergravity on toroidal O5 orientifolds with co-calibrated G2 structure and RR background flux. We find that such compactifications can provide full closed string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Maxim Emelin , Fotis Farakos , George Tringas

The structure of stringy quantum corrections to four-dimensional effective theories is particularly interesting for string phenomenology and attempts to stabilize moduli. We consider the heterotic string compactified on a Calabi-Yau space.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-19 Lilia Anguelova , Callum Quigley , Savdeep Sethi

This article represents the author's PhD thesis which is focused on moduli stabilisation in type IIB Calabi-Yau flux compactifications and its applications to cosmology. I derive the topological conditions on an arbitrary Calabi-Yau to give…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-31 Michele Cicoli

Motivated by a class of flux compactifications of type IIA strings on rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds, preserving N=2 local supersymmetry in four dimensions, we derive a non-perturbative potential of all scalar fields from the exact D-instanton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Sergei Alexandrov , Sergei V. Ketov , Yuki Wakimoto

We find de Sitter and flat space solutions with all moduli stabilized in four dimensional supergravity theories derived from the heterotic and type II string theories, and explain how all the previously known obstacles to finding such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-03 R. Brustein , S. P. de Alwis

We analyse warping corrections to the scalar potential in flux compactifications of Type IIB string theory, focusing on their effect on $F$-term de Sitter uplifting in Calabi-Yau orientifold models. A systematic inverse-volume expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Arthur Hebecker , Severin Lüst , Andreas Schachner , Simon Schreyer

We review recent progress in understanding non-perturbative instanton corrections to the hypermultiplet moduli space in type II string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Frank Saueressig

We study the stabilization of a twisted modulus in Type IIB flux compactifications on a mirror of the rigid Calabi-Yau threefold. By analyzing the effective action of twisted and untwisted moduli, we find that three-form fluxes satisfying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-11 Keiya Ishiguro , Takafumi Kai , Hajime Otsuka

We consider the Type IIB string theory in the presence of various extra $7/\bar 7$-brane pairs compactified on a warped Calabi-Yau threefold that admits a conifold singularity. We demonstrate that the volume modulus can be stabilized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Konstantin Bobkov

In this note we construct large ensembles of supersymmetry breaking solutions arising in the context of flux compactifications of type IIB string theory. This class of solutions was previously proposed in arXiv:hep-th/0402135 for which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-31 Sven Krippendorf , Andreas Schachner

We study K\"ahler moduli stabilization in IIB superstring theory. We propose a new moduli stabilization mechanism by the supersymmetry-braking chiral superfield which is coupled to K\"ahler moduli in K\"ahler potential. We also study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-17 Tatsuo Kobayashi , Osamu Seto , Shintaro Takada , Takuya H. Tatsuishi , Shohei Uemura , Junji Yamamoto

We show that the conifold and deformed-conifold warped compactifications of the ten-dimensional type IIB supergravity, including the Klebanov-Strassler solution, are dynamically unstable in the moduli sector representing the scale of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Hideo Kodama , Kunihito Uzawa

This thesis primarily dives into investigating the details of four-dimensional vacua within String Theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. In the first and second part of the thesis, we study the fibred Calabi-Yau and M-theory moduli…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Sirui Ning

We describe a simple class of type IIA string compactifications on Calabi-Yau manifolds where background fluxes generate a potential for the complex structure moduli, the dilaton, and the K\"ahler moduli. This class of models corresponds to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 Shamit Kachru , Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor

We consider flux compactification of type IIB string theory as the orientifold limit of an F-theory on a Calabi-Yau fourfold. We show that when supersymmetry is dominantly broken by the axion-dilaton and the contributions of the F-terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-17 Masoud Soroush