Building a Better Racetrack

Abstract

We find IIb compactifications on Calabi-Yau orientifolds in which all Kahler moduli are stabilized, along lines suggested by Kachru, Kallosh, Linde and Trivedi.

47 pages, 1 figure, harvmac (v2: added references, minor comments, v3: improved discussion of metastability and explicit flux vacua)

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• The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory
• Distributions of flux vacua
• The effective action of N=1 Calabi-Yau orientifolds
• Fayet-Iliopoulos Terms in Supergravity and Cosmology
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• Flux compactifications in string theory: a comprehensive review
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• The type IIB string axiverse and its low-energy phenomenology
• Large-Volume Flux Compactifications: Moduli Spectrum and D3/D7 Soft Supersymmetry Breaking
• The QCD Axion and Moduli Stabilisation
• String Cosmology: A Review
• Type IIA Moduli Stabilization
• Particle physics models of inflation and curvaton scenarios
• Landscape, the Scale of SUSY Breaking, and Inflation
• Racetrack Inflation
• Kahler Moduli Inflation
• Fluxes, moduli fixing and MSSM-like vacua in a simple IIA orientifold
• D-brane Instantons in Type II String Theory
• Distributions of nonsupersymmetric flux vacua
• The effective action of D7-branes in N=1 Calabi-Yau orientifolds
• General Analysis of LARGE Volume Scenarios with String Loop Moduli Stabilisation
• Stringy Instantons and Quiver Gauge Theories
• Les Houches Lectures on Constructing String Vacua
• Flux-induced SUSY-breaking soft terms on D7-D3 brane systems
• Gaugino Condensates and D-terms from D7-branes
• Moduli Stabilisation versus Chirality for MSSM like Type IIB Orientifolds
• Jumping Through Loops: On Soft Terms from Large Volume Compactifications
• D-brane Deconstructions in IIB Orientifolds
• de Sitter String Vacua from Kahler Uplifting
• Systematics of String Loop Corrections in Type IIB Calabi-Yau Flux Compactifications
• Stringy corrections to Kahler potentials, SUSY breaking, and the cosmological constant problem
• Simple de Sitter Solutions
• Random Matrices and the Spectrum of N-flation
• D-terms and F-terms from D7-brane fluxes
• The Statistics of Supersymmetric D-brane Models
• Physics of String Flux Compactifications
• The dS swampland conjecture and the Higgs potential
• Computational complexity of the landscape I
• Explicit de Sitter Flux Vacua for Global String Models with Chiral Matter
• D3/D7 Brane Inflation and Semilocal Strings
• On Inflation in String Theory
• Enumerating Flux Vacua with Enhanced Symmetries
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• Inflation in AdS/CFT
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• Soft SUSY Breaking Terms for Chiral Matter in IIB String Compactifications
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• Astrophysical and Cosmological Implications of Large Volume String Compactifications
• Gaugino Condensation and Nonperturbative Superpotentials in Flux Compactifications
• Basic results in Vacuum Statistics
• On the Explicit Construction and Statistics of Calabi-Yau Flux Vacua
• Low Energy Supersymmetry From the Landscape
• Vacua with Small Flux Superpotential
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• The landscape of intersecting brane models
• Supersymmetry Breaking in the Anthropic Landscape
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• Statistical analysis of the supersymmetry breaking scale
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• Moduli Stabilization in Type IIB Orientifolds (I)
• Global F-theory Models: Instantons and Gauge Dynamics
• Life at the Interface of Particle Physics and String Theory
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• Stringy Effects During Inflation and Reheating
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• The Tadpole Problem
• Lectures on Cosmic Inflation and its Potential Stringy Realizations
• TASI/PiTP/ISS Lectures on Moduli and Microphysics
• Small Cosmological Constants in String Theory
• A comment on effective field theories of flux vacua
• Accidental Inflation in String Theory
• Fixing All Moduli for M-Theory on K3xK3
• New F-theory lifts
• Sequestering in String Theory
• WEAKLY-coupled IIA Flux Compactifications
• D3 Brane Action and Fermion Zero Modes in Presence of Background Flux
• de Sitter Vacua in Type IIB String Theory: Classical Solutions and Quantum Corrections
• Non-Perturbative Superpotentials in F-theory and String Duality
• D7-Brane Moduli Space in Axion Monodromy and Fluxbrane Inflation
• Toric K3-Fibred Calabi-Yau Manifolds with del Pezzo Divisors for String Compactifications
• Axion Inflation and Gravity Waves in String Theory
• The Ubiquitous Throat
• Anomalies, Gauss laws, and Page charges in M-theory
• Non-Perturbative Corrections and Modularity in N=1 Type IIB Compactifications
• Heterotic Moduli Stabilisation
• Topological constraints on stabilized flux vacua
• A Systematic Approach to Kähler Moduli Stabilisation
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• Sparticle Spectra and LHC Signatures for Large Volume String Compactifications
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• A Note on the Magnitude of the Flux Superpotential
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• Realistic Yukawa Structures from Orientifold Compactifications
• Accelerating Universes and String Theory
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• Conifold Vacua with Small Flux Superpotential
• A Barren Landscape?
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• Moduli Stabilisation and de Sitter String Vacua from Magnetised D7 Branes
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• Membrane Instantons and de Sitter Vacua
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• Moduli Stabilisation and Applications in IIB String Theory
• de Sitter String Vacua from Perturbative Kahler Corrections and Consistent D-terms
• Raising Anti de Sitter Vacua to de Sitter Vacua in Heterotic M-Theory
• Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking in String Compactifications
• Stabilizing All Kahler Moduli in Type IIB Orientifolds
• Green-Schwarz Mechanism in Heterotic (2,0) Gauged Linear Sigma Models: Torsion and NS5 Branes
• General Type IIB Fluxes with SU(3) Structures
• Landscaping with fluxes and the E8 Yukawa Point in F-theory
• Exacerbating the cosmological constant problem with interacting dark energy
• Non-perturbative superpotentials across lines of marginal stability
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• On de Sitter Vacua in Type IIA Orientifold Compactifications
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• Systematics of Axion Inflation in Calabi-Yau Hypersurfaces
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• Calabi-Yau Duals of Torus Orientifolds
• Dipole Radiation and Beyond from Axion Stars in Electromagnetic Fields
• $G_4$ Flux, Algebraic Cycles and Complex Structure Moduli Stabilization
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• Accidental Inflation in the Landscape
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• Slow Roll in Brane Inflation
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• Freezing E3-brane instantons with fluxes
• Heterotic orbifold resolutions as (2,0) gauged linear sigma models
• A Stringy Mechanism for A Small Cosmological Constant - Multi-Moduli Cases -
• Non-perturbative effects and wall-crossing from topological strings
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• Distribution of Flux Vacua around Singular Points in Calabi-Yau Moduli Space
• Fluxes, Vacua, and Tadpoles meet Landau-Ginzburg and Fermat
• "Finite" Non-Gaussianities and Tensor-Scalar Ratio in Large Volume Swiss-Cheese Compactifications
• D-terms and D-strings in open string models
• Resolving spacetime singularities in flux compactifications & KKLT
• Metastable Quivers in String Compactifications
• Blueprints of the No-Scale Multiverse at the LHC
• Cosmological Avatars of the Landscape I: Bracketing the SUSY Breaking Scale
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• Brane Inflation, Solitons and Cosmological Solutions: I
• Crisis on Infinite Earths: Short-lived de Sitter Vacua in the String Theory Landscape
• Moduli Stabilisation and the Statistics of SUSY Breaking in the Landscape
• Racetrack Potentials and the de Sitter Swampland Conjectures
• Preference for a Vanishingly Small Cosmological Constant in Supersymmetric Vacua in a Type IIB String Theory Model
• Stable de Sitter vacua in N=2, D=5 supergravity
• Gauge sector statistics of intersecting D-brane models
• Four Kahler Moduli Stabilisation in type IIB Orientifolds with K3-fibred Calabi-Yau threefold compactification
• Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis in Effective Supergravity
• D-brane instantons on non-Spin cycles
• Wavefunction of the Universe on the Landscape
• The F-Landscape: Dynamically Determining the Multiverse
• Sequestered Dark Matter
• On the Effective Description of Large Volume Compactifications
• Universal Properties of Type IIB and F-theory Flux Compactifications at Large Complex Structure
• A Fly in the SOUP
• The Spectra of Type IIB Flux Compactifications at Large Complex Structure
• Moduli-Induced Vacuum Destabilisation
• Systematics of perturbatively flat flux vacua
• Towards a complete mass spectrum of type-IIB flux vacua at large complex structure
• Universal Class of Type-IIB Flux Vacua with Analytic Mass Spectrum
• Asymptotic states of the bounce geometry
• Resolved Toroidal Orbifolds and their Orientifolds
• Moduli Stabilization in Toroidal Type IIB Orientifolds
• Systematics of Moduli Stabilization, Inflationary Dynamics and Power Spectrum
• Heavy Particles from Inflation
• On the Search for Low $W_0$
• Fully stabilized Minkowski vacua in the $2^6$ Landau-Ginzburg model
• Analytics of type IIB flux vacua and their mass spectra
• Stabilizing massless fields with fluxes in Landau-Ginzburg models
• Chameleons on the Racetrack
• Statistical Distribution of the Vacuum Energy Density in Racetrack Kähler Uplift Models in String Theory
• Dynamics of warped flux compactifications with backreacting anti-branes
• Landscape Higgs and sparticle mass predictions from a logarithmic soft term distribution
• Seeking de-Sitter Vacua in the String Landscape
• Axionic Inflation from Large Volume Flux Compactifications
• On 'Light' Fermions and Proton Stability in 'Big Divisor' D3/D7 Swiss Cheese Phenomenology
• Towards Large Volume Big Divisor D3-D7 "mu-Split Supersymmetry" and Ricci-Flat Swiss-Cheese Metrics, and Dimension-Six Neutrino Mass Operators
• Soft SUSY Breaking Parameters and RG Running of Squark and Slepton Masses in Large Volume Swiss Cheese Compactifications
• Heterotic warped Eguchi-Hanson spectra with five-branes and line bundles
• (N)LSP Decays and Gravitino Dark Matter Relic Abundance in Big Divisor (nearly) SLagy D3/D7 mu-Split SUSY
• A new class of de Sitter vacua in String Theory Compactifications
• Type IIB Flux Vacua at Large Complex Structure
• Why did the Universe Start from a Low Entropy State?
• Limits on Entanglement Effects in the String Landscape from Planck and BICEP/Keck Data
• Purely non-perturbative AdS vacua and the swampland
• Observational Consequences of Quantum Cosmology
• Kahler Moduli Inflation in Type IIB Compactifications: A random tumble through the Calabi-Yau landscape
• The Cosmological Constant and the Electroweak Scale
• String Landscape and Fermion Masses
• A Simple System For Coleman-De Luccia Transitions
• Towards an Observational Appraisal of String Cosmology
• Birth of the Universe from the Multiverse
• Uncovering a Spinor-Vector Duality on a Resolved Orbifold
• Aligned Natural Inflation in the Large Volume Scenario
• Systematics of perturbatively flat flux vacua for CICYs
• Mass Production of IIA and IIB dS Vacua
• Axion species scale and axion weak gravity conjecture-like bound
• Higher-Derivative Supergravity and Moduli Stabilization
• A Healthy Electron/Neutron EDM in D3/D7 mu-Split-Like SUSY
• Hidden Sectors in String Theory: Kinetic Mixings, Fifth Forces and Quintessence
• Linking the Supersymmetric Standard Model to the Cosmological Constant
• Moduli Stabilization in Type IIB Flux Compactifications
• Phenomenology from the Landscape of String Vacua
• Enhancement of axion decay constants in type IIA theory?
• Probability of Vacuum Stability in Type IIB Multi-Kähler Moduli Models
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• No-Scale Multiverse Blueprints at the LHC
• Joint Statistics of Cosmological Constant and SUSY Breaking in Flux Vacua with Nilpotent Goldstino
• On Natural Inflation and Moduli Stabilisation in String Theory
• A Note on Fluxes in Six-Dimensional String Theory Backgrounds
• "Big" Divisor D3/D7 Swiss Cheese Phenomenology
• Toroidal Orbifolds: Resolutions, Orientifolds and Applications in String Phenomenology
• String Loop Moduli Stabilisation and Cosmology in IIB Flux Compactifications
• On Moduli Stabilization Scheme in Type IIB Flux Compactifications
• The No-Scale Multiverse at the LHC
• Topics in vacuum decay (Ph.D Thesis)
• On Issues in Swiss Cheese Compactifications
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• Classification of Pati--Salam Asymmetric ${\mathbb{Z}}_2\times {\mathbb{Z}}_2$ Heterotic String Orbifolds
• Topics in Supergravity Phenomenology