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Metastable Domains of the Landscape
Michael Dine, Guido Festuccia, Alexander Morisse +1
We argue that the vast majority of flux vacua with small cosmological constant are unstable to rapid decay to a big crunch. Exceptions are states with large compactification volume…
IIA moduli stabilization with badly broken supersymmetry
Michael Dine, Alexander Morisse, Assaf Shomer +1
Scherk-Schwarz compactification in string theory can be defined as orbifolding by an R symmetry, a symmetry that acts differently on bosons and fermions. Such a symmetry can arise…
Dark Matter and Dark Energy: A Physicist's Perspective
Michael Dine
For physicists, recent developments in astrophysics and cosmology present exciting challenges. We are conducting "experiments" in energy regimes some of which will be probed by acc…
Tree Level Supergravity and the Matrix Model
Michael Dine, Robert Echols, Joshua P. Gray
It has recently been shown that the Matrix model and supergravity give the same predictions for three graviton scattering. This contradicts an earlier claim in the literature (hep-…
New M-theory Backgrounds with Frozen Moduli
Michael Dine, Eva Silverstein
We propose examples, which involve orbifolds by elements of the U-duality group, with M-theory moduli fixed at the eleven-dimensional Planck scale. We begin by reviewing asymmetric…
String Theory Dualities
Michael Dine
The past year has seen enormous progress in string theory. It has become clear that all of the different string theories are different limits of a single theory. Moreover, in certa…