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We perform a general analysis on the possibility of obtaining metastable vacua with spontaneously broken N=1 supersymmetry and non-negative cosmological constant in the moduli sector of string models. More specifically, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 Laura Covi , Marta Gomez-Reino , Christian Gross , Jan Louis , Gonzalo A. Palma , Claudio A. Scrucca

No-scale supergravity is the appropriate general framework for low-energy effective field theories derived from string theory. The simplest no-scale K\"ahler potential with a single chiral field corresponds to a compactification to flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 John Ellis , Balakrishnan Nagaraj , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos , Keith A. Olive

We construct a new class of non-supersymmetric ten-dimensional type II flux vacua, by studying first order differential equations which are deformations of the $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetry conditions. We do so within the context of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-11 Vincent Menet

We study the superstring vacua constructed from the conformal field theories of the type H_4 x M, where H_4 denotes the super Nappi-Witten model (super WZW model on the 4-dimensional Heisenberg group H_4) and M denotes an arbitrary N=2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Yasuaki Hikida , Yuji Sugawara

We investigate reductions of M-theory beyond twisted tori by allowing the presence of KK6 monopoles (KKO6-planes) compatible with N=4 supersymmetry in four dimensions. The presence of KKO6-planes proves crucial to achieve full moduli…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Jean-Pierre Derendinger , Adolfo Guarino

Consistent uplifting of AdS vacua in string theory often requires extra light degrees of freedom in addition to those of a (Kaehler) modulus. Here we consider the possibility that de Sitter and Minkowski vacua arise due to hidden sector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Oleg Lebedev , Hans Peter Nilles , Michael Ratz

We analyze the classical stable configurations of an extra-dimensional gauge theory, in which the extra dimensions are compactified on a torus. Depending on the particular choice of gauge group and the number of extra dimensions, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 M. Salvatori

We study a set of asymmetric deformations of non-critical superstring theories in various dimensions. The deformations arise as Kaehler and complex structure deformations of an orthogonal two-torus comprising of a parallel and a transverse…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Troels Harmark , Vasilis Niarchos , Niels A. Obers

We explicitly construct all supersymmetric flux vacua of a particular Calabi-Yau compactification of type IIB string theory for a small number of flux carrying cycles and a given D3-brane tadpole. The analysis is performed in the large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Danny Martinez-Pedrera , Dhagash Mehta , Markus Rummel , Alexander Westphal

In supersymmetric models with the run-away vacua or with the stable but non-supersymmetric ground state there exist stable field configurations (vacua) which restore one half of supersymmetry and are characterized by constant positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Dvali , M. Shifman

We study instanton solutions and superpotentials for the large number of vacua of the plane-wave matrix model and a 2+1 dimensional Super Yang-Mills theory on $R\times S^2$ with sixteen supercharges. We get the superpotential in the weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-11 Hai Lin

We review recent progress in constructing type IIB AdS$_{3}$ flux vacua that exhibit parametrically-controlled scale separation and come along with integer-valued conformal dimensions for the would-be dual CFT$_{2}$ operators. We comment on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Álvaro Arboleya , Adolfo Guarino , Matteo Morittu

Some aspects of string compactifications with non-geometric fluxes are revisited in the light of recent progress in double field theory. After rederiving the general form of these fluxes, we consider the proposed flux induced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-07 Ralph Blumenhagen , Xin Gao , Daniela Herschmann , Pramod Shukla

We revisit flux compactifications of type IIB string theory on `spaces' dual to rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds. This rather unexplored part of the string landscapes harbors many interesting four-dimensional solutions, namely supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Jacob Bardzell , Eduardo Gonzalo , Muthusamy Rajaguru , Danielle Smith , Timm Wrase

We show that the formal alpha' expansion for heterotic flux vacua is only sensible when flux quantization and the appearance of string scale cycles in the geometry are carefully taken into account. We summarize a number of properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Ilarion V. Melnikov , Ruben Minasian , Savdeep Sethi

We consider two infinite families of Non-Supersymmetric $AdS_4$ vacua, called Type 2) and Type 3) vacua, that arise in massive IIA supergravity with flux. We show that both families are perturbatively stable. We then examine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Prithvi Narayan , Sandip P. Trivedi

We construct supersymmetric $\mathrm{AdS}_4$ vacua of type IIB string theory in compactifications on orientifolds of Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces. We first find explicit orientifolds and quantized fluxes for which the superpotential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Mehmet Demirtas , Manki Kim , Liam McAllister , Jakob Moritz , Andres Rios-Tascon

It appears to be difficult within string theory to obtain genuine scale separation between spacetime and the internal sector. In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism for scale-separated vacua which hinges on stringy effects that are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-04 Steven Abel , Ivano Basile , Viktor Matyas

We study conditions on general fluxes of massive Type IIA supergravity that lead to four-dimensional backgrounds with N = 1 supersymmetry. We derive these conditions in the case of SU(3)- as well as SU(2)-structures. SU(3)-structures imply…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Klaus Behrndt , Mirjam Cvetic

We show that there exist supersymmetric Minkowski vacua on Type IIB toroidal orientifold with general flux compactifications where the RR tadpole cancellation conditions can be relaxed elegantly. Then we present a realistic Pati-Salam like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ching-Ming Chen , Tianjun Li , Yan Liu , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos