Physics of String Flux Compactifications

By Frederik Denef, Michael R Douglas, S. Kachru. 2007

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We provide a qualitative review of flux compactifications of string theory, focusing on broad physical implications and statistical methods of analysis.

Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Les Houches Lectures on Constructing String Vacua (2008, background): “An extensive review can be found in [26], and a more pedagogical review in [113].”
Moduli Stabilisation versus Chirality for MSSM like Type IIB Orientifolds (2007, background): “In recent years some progress has been made towards actually achieving this goal in that new ways of fixing moduli in string compactifications have been found (see [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] for reviews).”
GUTs in Type IIB Orientifold Compactifications (2008, background): “During the last years, various classes of four-dimensional string compactifications with N = 1 spacetime supersymmetry have been studied in quite some detail (see the reviews [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] for references).”
Inflation and String Theory (2014, background): “The literature on flux compactifications beyond type IIB orientifolds is so extensive that we will not attempt to summarize it: more complete discussions of flux compactifications, where the original references can be found, include [44,314,315].”
General analysis of LARGE Volume Scenarios with string loop moduli stabilisation (2008, background): “This situation improved remarkably after the systematic study of flux compactifications and their impact on moduli stabilisation [1] (for reviews see [2, 3]) Fluxes are particularly powerful in type IIB string compactifications, as there the backreaction is well-controlled and gives rise only to war”
Holographic Quantum Matter (2016, methodology): “The necessary tools to find backgrounds with a hierarchy of lengthscales have been developed in the context of the ‘string landscape’ [184].”
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].”