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Axion minima in string theory
Naomi Gendler, Oliver Janssen, Matthew Kleban +2
We study the landscape of axion theories in compactifications of type IIB string theory on orientifolds of Calabi-Yau threefolds. In a sample of approximately 400,000 geometries we…
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The Kontsevich-Segal Criterion in the No-Boundary State Constrains Inflation
Thomas Hertog, Oliver Janssen, Joel Karlsson
We show that the Kontsevich-Segal (KS) criterion, applied to the complex saddles that specify the semiclassical no-boundary wave function, acts as a selection mechanism on inflatio…