Distributions of nonsupersymmetric flux vacua

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1419-1448

  Denef, Frederik ^a   Douglas, Michael R ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Statistical Methods; Superstring Vacua; Supersymmetry Breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344433540     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/061     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. M.R. Douglas, The statistics of string/M theory vacua, JHEP 05 (2003) 046 [hep-th/0303194].
2. S. Ashok and M.R. Douglas, Counting flux vacua, JHEP 01 (2004) 060 [hep-th/0307049].
3. M.R. Douglas, B. Shiffman and S. Zelditch, Critical points and supersymmetric vacua, [math.CV/0402326].
4. F. Denef and M.R. Douglas, Distributions of flux vacua, JHEP 05 (2004) 072 [hep-th/0404116].
5. M.R. Douglas, Basic results in vacuum statistics, Comptes Rendus Physique 5 (2004) 965-977 [hep-th/0409207].
6. J.P. Conlon and F. Quevedo, On the explicit construction and statistics of Calabi-Yau flux vacua, JHEP 10 (2004) 039 [hep-th/0409215].
7. M. Dine, Supersymmetry, naturalness and the landscape, hep-th/0410201.
8. G. Dvali, Large hierarchies from attractor vacua, hep-th/0410286.
9. J. Kumar and J.D. Wells, Landscape cartography: a coarse survey of gauge group rank and stabilization of the proton, Phys. Rev. D 71 (2005) 026009 [hep-th/0409218].
10. R. Blumenhagen, F. Gmeiner, G. Honecker, D. Lüst and T. Weigand, The statistics of supersymmetric D-brane models, hep-th/0411173.
11. S.B. Giddings, S. Kachru and J. Polchinski, Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications, Phys. Rev. D 66 (2002) 106006 [hep-th/0105097].
12. N. Arkani-Hamed and S. Dimopoulos, Supersymmetric unification without low energy supersymmetry and signatures for fine-tuning at the LHC, hep-th/0405159.
13. G.F. Giudice and A. Romanino, Split supersymmetry, Nucl. Phys. B 699 (2004) 65 [hep-ph/0406088].
14. R. Bousso and J. Polchinski, Quantization of four-form fluxes and dynamical neutralization of the cosmological constant, JHEP 06 (2000) 006 [hep-th/0004134].
15. J.D. Brown and C. Teitelboim, Dynamical neutralization of the cosmological constant, Phys. Lett. B 195 (1987) 177.
16. S. Weinberg, Anthropic bound on the cosmological constant, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59 (1987) 2607.
17. M.R. Douglas, Statistical analysis of the supersymmetry breaking scale, hep-th/0405279.
18. L. Susskind, Supersymmetry breaking in the anthropic landscape, hep-th/0405189.
19. M. Dine, E. Gorbatov and S. Thomas, Low energy supersymmetry from the landscape, hep-th/0407043.
20. S. Kachru, R. Kallosh, A. Linde and S.P. Trivedi, De Sitter vacua in string theory, Phys. Rev. D 68 (2003) 046005 [hep-th/0301240].
21. F. Denef, M.R. Douglas and B. Florea, Building a better racetrack, JHEP 06 (2004) 034 [hep-th/0404257].
22. F. Denef, M.R. Douglas, B. Florea, A. Grassi and S. Kachru, Fixing all moduli in a simple F-theory compactification, hep-th/0503124.
23. A, Altland and M.R. Zirnbauer, Novel symmetry classes in mesoscopic normal-superconducting hybrid structures, Phys. Rev. B 55 (1997) 1142 [cond-mat/9602137].
24. J. Wess and J. Bagger, Supersymmetry and supergravity, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1992.
25. A. Giryavets, S. Kachru and P.K. Tripathy, On the taxonomy of flux vacua, JHEP 08 (2004) 002 [hep-th/0404243].
26. O. DeWolfe, A. Giryavets, S. Kachru and W. Taylor, Enumerating flux vacua with enhanced symmetries, JHEP 02 (2005) 037 [hep-th/0411061].
27. R. Gopakumar and C. Vafa, On the gauge theory/geometry correspondence, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 3 (1999) 1415 [hep-th/9811131].
28. M.R. Douglas, D-branes and N = 1 supersymmetry, hep-th/0105014.
29. P. Binetruy, G. Dvali, R. Kallosh and A. Van Proeyen, Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in supergravity and cosmology, Class, and Quant. Grav. 21 (2004) 3137 [hep-th/0402046].