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hep-th2005★ 98 cited
Things Fall Apart: Topology Change from Winding Tachyons
A. Adams, X. Liu, J. McGreevy +2
We argue that closed string tachyons drive two spacetime topology changing transitions -- loss of genus in a Riemann surface and separation of a Riemann surface into two components…
hep-th2004★ 94 cited
A New Handle on de Sitter Compactifications
Alex Saltman, Eva Silverstein
We construct a large new class of de Sitter (and anti de Sitter) vacua of critical string theory from flux compactifications on products of Riemann surfaces. In the construction, t…
hep-th2004
The Scaling of the No Scale Potential and de Sitter Model Building
Alex Saltman, Eva Silverstein
We propose a variant of the KKLT (A)dS flux vacuum construction which does not require an antibrane to source the volume modulus. The strategy is to find nonzero local minima of th…