Les Houches Lectures on Constructing String Vacua
By Frederik Denef. 2008
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These lectures give a detailed introduction to constructing and analyzing string vacua suitable for phenomenological model building, with particular emphasis on F-theory flux vacua. Topics include (1) general challenges and overview of some proposed scenarios, (2) an extensive introduction to F-theory and its relation to M-theory and perturbative IIB string theory, (3) F-theory flux vacua and moduli stabilization scenarios, (4) a practical geometrical toolkit for constructing string vacua from scratch, (5) statistics of flux vacua, and (6) explicit models.
Subfields: Computational Mathematics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- D-brane Deconstructions in IIB Orientifolds (2008, background): “…building concerns, one would like to address ques- tions such as how many — if any — string vacua compatible with observational constraints we can expect to exist, and, more ambitiously, what the proper notion of naturalness or even probability is in the context of the string theory landscape.”
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- The F-theory geometry with most flux vacua (2015, methodology): “The counting problem of flux vacua was addressed in [5, 43–45], building on earlier insights from [46].”
- Global F-theory GUTs (2009, background): “These degeneration loci encode the location of space-time filling seven-branes of Type IIB compactified on B [11].”
- d-Brane Instantons in Type II Orientifolds (2009, background): “These have been an active field of research in the recent past and a number of review articles exist including [25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32].”
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- Theoretical aspects of the equivalence principle (2012, background): “a discrete set of vacua, in each of which the moduli fields take particular values φA, corresponding to some discrete, local minimum of the total energy (for reviews see [28, 29]).”
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- F-theory fluxes, chirality and Chern-Simons theories (2011, methodology): “Geometrically this corresponds to a degeneration of the elliptic fiber over divisors in the base wrapped by the seven-branes [1, 2].”