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Moduli Stabilization in Non-Geometric Backgrounds
Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, Cumrun Vafa +1
Type II orientifolds based on Landau-Ginzburg models are used to describe moduli stabilization for flux compactifications of type II theories from the world-sheet CFT point of view…
Geometrically Induced Metastability and Holography
M. Aganagic, C. Beem, J. Seo +1
We construct metastable configurations of branes and anti-branes wrapping 2-spheres inside local Calabi-Yau manifolds and study their large N duals. These duals are Calabi-Yau mani…
Crystal Melting and Black Holes
Jonathan J. Heckman, Cumrun Vafa
It has recently been shown that the statistical mechanics of crystal melting maps to A-model topological string amplitudes on non-compact Calabi-Yau spaces. In this note we establi…
String Gas Cosmology and Structure Formation
Robert H. Brandenberger, Ali Nayeri, Subodh P. Patil +1
It has recently been shown that a Hagedorn phase of string gas cosmology may provide a causal mechanism for generating a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of scalar metric fluctuatio…
On the Geometry of the String Landscape and the Swampland
Hirosi Ooguri, Cumrun Vafa
We make a number of conjectures about the geometry of continuous moduli parameterizing the string landscape. In particular we conjecture that such moduli are always given by expect…
Quaternion-Kahler spaces, hyperkahler cones, and the c-map
Martin Rocek, Cumrun Vafa, Stefan Vandoren
Under the action of the c-map, special Kahler manifolds are mapped into a class of quaternion-Kahler spaces. We explicitly construct the corresponding Swann bundle or hyperkahler c…