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Numerical Calabi-Yau metrics
Michael R. Douglas, Robert L. Karp, Sergio Lukic +1
We develop numerical methods for approximating Ricci flat metrics on Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in projective spaces. Our approach is based on finding balanced metrics, and builds on…
Flux Compactification
Michael R. Douglas, Shamit Kachru
We review recent work in which compactifications of string and M theory are constructed in which all scalar fields (moduli) are massive, and supersymmetry is broken with a small po…
Numerical solution to the hermitian Yang-Mills equation on the Fermat quintic
Michael R. Douglas, Robert L. Karp, Sergio Lukic +1
We develop an iterative method for finding solutions to the hermitian Yang-Mills equation on stable holomorphic vector bundles, following ideas recently developed by Donaldson. As…
The landscape of intersecting brane models
Michael R. Douglas, Washington Taylor
We develop tools for analyzing the space of intersecting brane models. We apply these tools to a particular T^6/Z_2^2 orientifold which has been used for model building. We prove t…
Branes, Bundles and Attractors: Bogomolov and Beyond
Michael R. Douglas, Rene Reinbacher, Shing-Tung Yau
We discuss conjectures following from the attractor mechanism in type II string theory about the possible Chern classes of stable holomorphic vector bundles on Calabi-Yau threefold…
On the Geometry of Moduli Space of Polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds
Michael Douglas, Zhiqin Lu
In this paper, we study the Chern classes on the moduli space of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds. We prove that the integrations of the invariants of the curvature of the Weil-Peter…
Understanding the landscape
Michael R. Douglas
Based on comments made at the 23rd Solvay Conference, December 2005, Brussels.
Computational complexity of the landscape I
Frederik Denef, Michael R. Douglas
We study the computational complexity of the physical problem of finding vacua of string theory which agree with data, such as the cosmological constant, and show that such problem…