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Counter-intuition and Scalar Masses
Eva Silverstein
The Bousso-Polchinski mechanism for discretely fine-tuning the cosmological constant favors a large bare negative cosmological constant. I argue (using generalizations of results o…
AdS and dS Entropy from String Junctions
Eva Silverstein
Flux compactifications of string theory exhibiting the possibility of discretely tuning the cosmological constant to small values have been constructed. The highly tuned vacua in t…
Decapitating Tadpoles
Allan Adams, John McGreevy, Eva Silverstein
We propose that perturbative quantum field theory and string theory can be consistently modified in the infrared to eliminate, in a radiatively stable manner, tadpole instabilities…
de Sitter Space in Non-Critical String Theory
Alexander Maloney, Eva Silverstein, Andrew Strominger
Supercritical string theories in D>10 dimensions with no moduli are described, generalizing the asymmetric orientifold construction of one of the authors. By taking the number of d…
(A)dS Backgrounds from Asymmetric Orientifolds
Eva Silverstein
I present asymmetric orientifold models which, with the addition of RR fluxes, fix all the NS NS moduli including the dilaton. In critical string theory, this gives new AdS backgro…
New M-theory Backgrounds with Frozen Moduli
Michael Dine, Eva Silverstein
We propose examples, which involve orbifolds by elements of the U-duality group, with M-theory moduli fixed at the eleven-dimensional Planck scale. We begin by reviewing asymmetric…