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most citedA landscape of orientifold vacua

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hep-th202036 cited

A landscape of orientifold vacua

Federico Carta, Jakob Moritz, Alexander Westphal

We present a vast landscape of O3/O7 orientifolds that descends from the famous set of complete intersection Calabi-Yau threefolds (CICY). We give distributions of topological data…

hep-th2019

Vacua with Small Flux Superpotential

Mehmet Demirtas, Manki Kim, Liam McAllister +1

We describe a method for finding flux vacua of type IIB string theory in which the Gukov-Vafa-Witten superpotential is exponentially small. We present an example with $W_0 \approx…

hep-th2019

Gaugino condensation and small uplifts in KKLT

Federico Carta, Jakob Moritz, Alexander Westphal

In the first part of this note we argue that ten dimensional consistency requirements in the form of a certain tadpole cancellation condition can be satisfied by KKLT type vacua of…

hep-th2018

Thraxions: Ultralight Throat Axions

Arthur Hebecker, Sascha Leonhardt, Jakob Moritz +1

We argue that a new type of extremely light axion is generically present in the type IIB part of the string theory landscape. Its mass is suppressed by the third power of the warp…

hep-th2018

On uplifts by warped anti-D3-branes

Jakob Moritz, Ander Retolaza, Alexander Westphal

In this note we outline the arguments against the ten-dimensional consistency of the simplest types of KKLT de Sitter vacua, as given in arXiv:1707.08678. We comment on parametriza…

hep-th2018

Racing through the swampland: de Sitter uplift vs weak gravity

Jakob Moritz, Thomas Van Riet

We observe that racetrack models for moduli stabilization are in tension with strong forms of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC). Moreover, recently, it was noted that controlled KK…