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hep-th2006★ 7 cited
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…
hep-th2006★ 8 cited
On Witten's Instability and Winding Tachyons
Michael Dine, Assaf Shomer, Zheng Sun
We investigate, from a spacetime perspective, some aspects of Horowitz's recent conjecture that black strings may catalyze the decay of Kaluza-Klein spacetimes into a bubble of not…
hep-th2006★ 63 cited
A note on Gauge Theories Coupled to Gravity
Tom Banks, Matt Johnson, Assaf Shomer
We analyze the bound on gauge couplings , suggested by Arkani-Hamed et.al. We show this bound can be derived from simple semi-classical considerations and holds in spa…