Flux compactifications in string theory: A Comprehensive review

By M. Graña. 2005

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We present a pedagogical overview of flux compactifications in string theory, from the basic ideas to the most recent developments. We concentrate on closed-string fluxes in type-II theories. We start by reviewing the supersymmetric flux configurations with maximally symmetric four-dimensional spaces. We then discuss the no-go theorems (and their evasion) for compactifications with fluxes. We analyze the resulting four-dimensional effective theories, as well as some of its perturbative and non-perturbative corrections, focusing on moduli stabilization. Finally, we briefly review statistical studies of flux backgrounds.

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MODELS OF PARTICLE PHYSICS FROM TYPE IIB STRING THEORY AND F-THEORY: A REVIEW (2012, background): “Our discussion of the subject shall be brief, as there are already many excellent reviews [12–17].”
A scan for new N = 1 vacua on twisted tori (2006, background): “The interest in flux compactifications was originally driven primarily by practical considerations — they allow for a stable supersymmetry breaking, have mechanisms for moduli stabilization and may even hold a key to the solution of the hierarchy problem (see [1] for a review and references).”
Universal Kaluza-Klein reductions of type IIB to N = 4 supergravity in five dimensions (2010, background): “Thus, after first reducing on the U(1), the reduction has the structure of a type IIA reduction on an SU(3) manifold [13], the KE6 space.”
Moduli Stabilisation versus Chirality for MSSM like Type IIB Orientifolds (2007, methodology): “In the second part of this paper, we will investigate some of these aspects for the swiss cheese type Calabi-Yau manifold defined via the resolution of the singular hypersurface in a weighted projective space IP[1,3,3,3,5][15](3,75).”
Four-dimensional string compactifications with D-branes, orientifolds and fluxes (2006, background): “Since there exists a very good review article on general flux compactifications [74], here we mostly stick to the best understood case of three-form fluxes in type IIB orientifolds with O7/O3-planes.”
Supersymmetric sources, integrability and generalized-structure compactifications (2007, background): “[1, 2, 3]) may be the right framework wherein to address long-standing issues which have hitherto prevented string theory from making contact with realistic low-energy physics.”
De Sitter vacua in no-scale supergravities and Calabi-Yau string models (2008, background): “There exist various dynamical effects, such as fluxes or gaugino condensates, which can induce a nontrivial superpotential W for the moduli [28].”
The effective action of double field theory (2011, background): “1 Introduction Flux compactifications of string theory [1–3] lead to gauged supergravities [4], providing an efficient mechanism of moduli stabilization and spontaneous supersymmetry breaking.”
Gauged Supergravities. (2016, background): “which is nothing but the tadpole cancelation condition [71], in the absence of localized objects.”
From ten to four and back again: how to generalize the geometry (2007, background): “[1], but are missing in the truncated approach.”
Tate’s algorithm and F-theory (2011, background): “Moreover, Ftheory has played an important rôle in the study of the “landscape” of string compactifications, both in four dimensions [12, 13, 14] and in recent work in six dimensions [15, 16, 17, 18].”
D-brane Deconstructions in IIB Orientifolds (2008, neutral): “F-theory picture 6 2.1 Introduction 6 2.2 Fourfold data and D3 tadpole 7 2.3 Weak coupling orientifold limit and D7 moduli 8 2.4 Fluxes 10”