Basic results in Vacuum Statistics

Abstract

A review of recent work on constructing and finding statistics of string theory vacua, done in collaboration with Frederik Denef, Bogdan Florea, Bernard Shiffman and Steve Zelditch.

arXiv comment11 pages, 5 figures (Latex elsart.cls, included)

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