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Distributions of nonsupersymmetric flux vacua
Frederik Denef, Michael R. Douglas
We continue the study of the distribution of nonsupersymmetric flux vacua in IIb string theory compactified on Calabi-Yau manifolds, as in hep-th/0404116. We show that the basic st…
Basic results in Vacuum Statistics
Michael R. Douglas
A review of recent work on constructing and finding statistics of string theory vacua, done in collaboration with Frederik Denef, Bogdan Florea, Bernard Shiffman and Steve Zelditch…
Statistical analysis of the supersymmetry breaking scale
Michael R. Douglas
We discuss the question of what type and scale of supersymmetry breaking might be statistically favored among vacua of string/M theory, building on comments in Denef and Douglas, h…
Critical points and supersymmetric vacua, II: Asymptotics and extremal metrics
Michael R. Douglas, Bernard Shiffman, Steve Zelditch
Motivated by the vacuum selection problem of string/M theory, we study a new geometric invariant of a positive Hermitian line bundle over a compact Kähler manifold: t…
Distributions of flux vacua
Frederik Denef, Michael R. Douglas
We give results for the distribution and number of flux vacua of various types, supersymmetric and nonsupersymmetric, in IIb string theory compactified on Calabi-Yau manifolds. We…
Building a Better Racetrack
Frederik Denef, Michael R. Douglas, Bogdan Florea
We find IIb compactifications on Calabi-Yau orientifolds in which all Kahler moduli are stabilized, along lines suggested by Kachru, Kallosh, Linde and Trivedi.