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hep-th2015★ 7 cited
A Landscape of Field Theories
Travis Maxfield, Daniel Robbins, Savdeep Sethi
Studying a quantum field theory involves a choice of space-time manifold and a choice of background for any global symmetries of the theory. We argue that many more choices are pos…
hep-th2015★ 106 cited
Constraining de Sitter Space in String Theory
David Kutasov, Travis Maxfield, Ilarion Melnikov +1
We argue that the heterotic string does not have classical vacua corresponding to de Sitter space-times of dimension four or higher. The same conclusion applies to type II vacua in…