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hep-th2008★ 48 cited

The footprint of E7 in amplitudes of N=8 supergravity

Renata Kallosh, Taichiro Kugo

We study the low energy theorems associated with the non-linearly realized continuous E7 symmetry of the on-shell N=8 supergravity. For Nambu-Goldstone bosons we evaluate the one-s…

hep-th2008★ 59 cited

The Volume of the Universe after Inflation and de Sitter Entropy

Sergei Dubovsky, Leonardo Senatore, Giovanni Villadoro

We calculate the probability distribution for the volume of the Universe after slow-roll inflation both in the eternal and in the non-eternal regime. Far from the eternal regime th…

hep-th2008★ 51 cited

Open String Wavefunctions in Warped Compactifications

Fernando Marchesano, Paul McGuirk, Gary Shiu

We analyze the wavefunctions for open strings in warped compactifications, and compute the warped Kahler potential for the light modes of a probe D-brane. This analysis not only ap…

hep-th2008★ 98 cited

Index theorem for topological excitations on R^3 * S^1 and Chern-Simons theory

Erich Poppitz, Mithat Unsal

We derive an index theorem for the Dirac operator in the background of various topological excitations on an R^3 \times S^1 geometry. The index theorem provides more refined data t…

hep-th2008★ 46 cited

Stationary Measure in the Multiverse

Andrei Linde, Vitaly Vanchurin, Sergei Winitzki

We study the recently proposed "stationary measure" in the context of the string landscape scenario. We show that it suffers neither from the "Boltzmann brain" problem nor from the…

hep-th2008★ 20 cited

Quantum Lift of Non-BPS Flat Directions

S. Bellucci, S. Ferrara, A. Marrani +1

We study N=2, d=4 attractor equations for the quantum corrected two-moduli prepotential , with real, which is the only correction which preserves the axion…