Four-dimensional string compactifications with D-branes, orientifolds and fluxes
By Ralph Blumenhagen, B. Kors, D. Lust, S. Stieberger. 2006
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This review article provides a pedagogical introduction into various classes of chiral string compactifications to four dimensions with D-branes and fluxes. The main concern is to provide all necessary technical tools to explicitly construct four-dimensional orientifold vacua, with the final aim to come as close as possible to the supersymmetric Standard Model. Furthermore, we outline the available methods to derive the resulting four-dimensional effective action. Finally, we summarize recent attempts to address the string vacuum problem via the statistical approach to D-brane models.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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