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In this work we analyze F-theory and Type IIB orientifold compactifications to study $\alpha '$-corrections to the four-dimensional, $\mathcal{N} = 1$ effective actions. In particular, we obtain corrections to the K\"ahlermoduli space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthias Weissenbacher

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

We find continuous families of supersymmetric flux vacua in IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications for multiparameter manifolds with an appropriate $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry. We argue, supported by extensive computational evidence, that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-11 Philip Candelas , Xenia de la Ossa , Pyry Kuusela , Joseph McGovern

Stable vacua obtained from isotropic tori compactification might not be fully stable provided the existence of runaway directions in the Kaehler directions of anisotropy. By implementing a genetic algorithm we report the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-28 Cesar Damian , Oscar Loaiza-Brito

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 and the Freed-Witten anomaly can be cancelled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-13 Ching-Ming Chen , Tianjun Li , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos

We analyze the tree-level potential of type IIB flux compactifications in warped Calabi-Yau orientifolds, in regions of weak coupling and moderately large complex structure. In this regime, one may approximate the flux-induced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 Thibaut Coudarchet , Fernando Marchesano , David Prieto , Mikel A. Urkiola

We generalize the recently proposed mechanism by Demirtas, Kim, McAllister and Moritz arXiv:1912.10047 for the explicit construction of type IIB flux vacua with $|W_0|\ll 1$ to the region close to the conifold locus in the complex structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-14 Rafael Álvarez-García , Ralph Blumenhagen , Max Brinkmann , Lorenz Schlechter

We study heterotic Calabi--Yau compactifications with NSNS three-form flux in view of moduli stabilisation and investigate whether the value $|W_0|$ of the flux superpotential evaluated at supersymmetric minima can be small. Unlike in type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Andrei Constantin , Lucas T. Y. Leung , Andre Lukas , Burt Ovrut

The four-dimensional effective theory for type IIB warped flux compactifications proposed in [1] is completed by taking into account the backreaction of the K\"ahler moduli on the three-form fluxes. The only required modification consists…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Luca Martucci

We construct novel classes of compact G2 spaces from lifting type IIA flux backgrounds with O6 planes. There exists an extension of IIA Calabi-Yau orientifolds for which some of the D6 branes (required to solve the RR tadpole) are dissolved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-13 Stefano Andriolo , Gary Shiu , Hagen Triendl , Thomas Van Riet , Victoria Venken , Gianluca Zoccarato

We consider de Sitter vacua realised in concrete type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications with an anti D3-brane at the tip of a warped throat of Klebanov-Strassler type. The K\"ahler moduli are stabilised together with the complex structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-14 Chiara Crinò , Fernando Quevedo , Roberto Valandro

We derive stability conditions for the critical points of the no-scale scalar potential governing the dynamics of the complex structure moduli and the axio-dilaton in compactifications of type IIB string theory on Calabi-Yau three-folds. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Katrin Becker , Yu-Chieh Chung , Guangyu Guo

We consider a combination of perturbative and non-perturbative corrections in K\"ahler moduli stabilizations in the configuration of three magnetised intersecting D7 branes in the type-IIB/F theory, compactified on the 6d T^6/Z_N orbifold…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-11 Abhijit Let , Arunoday Sarkar , Chitrak Sarkar , Buddhadeb Ghosh

We geometrically engineer N=2 theories perturbed by a superpotential by adding 3-form flux with support at infinity to local Calabi-Yau geometries in type IIB. This allows us to apply the formalism of Ooguri, Ookouchi, and Park…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Lotte Hollands , Joseph Marsano , Kyriakos Papadodimas , Masaki Shigemori

Calabi-Yau compactifications have typically a large number of complex structure and/or K\"ahler moduli that have to be stabilised in phenomenologically-relevant vacua. The former can in principle be done by fluxes in type IIB solutions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Katrin Becker , Nathan Brady , Mariana Graña , Miguel Morros , Anindya Sengupta , Qi You

We consider the type II superstring compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds at finite temperature. The latter is implemented at the string level by a free action on the Euclidean time circle. We show that all Kahler and complex structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Lihui Liu , Herve Partouche

Flux compactification of IIB string theory associates special points in Calabi-Yau moduli space to choices of (pairs of) integral three-form fluxes. In this paper, we propose that supersymmetric flux vacua are modular. That is, to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-31 Shamit Kachru , Richard Nally , Wenzhe Yang

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 consider special geometry of the vector multiplet moduli space in compactifications of the heterotic string on $K3 \times T^2$ or the type IIA string on $K3$-fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds. In particular, we construct a modified dilaton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Per Berglund , Mans Henningson , Niclas Wyllard

In this work we analyze the role of $\alpha '$-corrections to type IIB orientifold compactifications in K\"ahler moduli stabilization and inflation. In particular, we propose a model independent scenario to achieve non-supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Matthias Weissenbacher