Bare-Bones de Sitter

Abstract

We compute the supersymmetry-breaking three-form fluxes generated by the addition of anti-D3 branes at the tip of a Klebanov-Strassler throat. These fluxes give rise to nontrivial terms in the superpotential when the throat is embedded in a flux compactification. We describe these terms both from a ten-dimensional and from a four-dimensional perspective and show that, upon including Kähler-moduli stabilization, the resulting potential admits de Sitter minima. Our proposed de Sitter construction does not require additional supersymmetry-breaking (0,3) fluxes, and hence is more minimalist than the KKLT proposal.

4 pages, 2 figures

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• Cosmology with Nilpotent Superfields
• The Minimal Volkov - Akulov - Starobinsky Supergravity
• The Tadpole Problem
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• Control issues of KKLT
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