3 papers
hep-th2020
Universal Class of Type-IIB Flux Vacua with Analytic Mass Spectrum
Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Kepa Sousa, Mikel A. Urkiola +1
We report on a new class of flux vacua generically present in Calabi-Yau compactifications of type-IIB string theory. At these vacua, the mass spectrum of the complete axio-dilaton…
hep-th2019
Slepian models for Gaussian Random Landscapes
Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Kepa Sousa, Mikel A. Urkiola
Phenomenologically interesting scalar potentials are highly atypical in generic random landscapes. We develop the mathematical techniques to generate constrained random potentials,…
hep-th2018
Racetrack Potentials and the de Sitter Swampland Conjectures
Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Mikel A. Urkiola, Jeremy M. Wachter
We show that one can find de Sitter critical points (saddle points) in models of flux compactification of Type IIB String Theory without any uplifting terms and in the presence of…