Vacuum stability in heterotic M theory
- 29 April 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 69 (8)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.69.086010
Abstract
The problem of the stabilization of moduli is discussed within the context of compactified strongly coupled heterotic string theory. It is shown that all geometric, vector bundle and five-brane moduli are completely fixed, within a phenomenologically acceptable range, by non-perturbative physics. This result requires, in addition to the full space of moduli, non-vanishing Neveu-Schwarz flux, gaugino condensation with threshold corrections and the explicit form of the Pfaffians in string instanton superpotentials. The stable vacuum presented here has a negative cosmological constant. The possibility of ``lifting'' this to a metastable vacuum with positive cosmological constant is briefly discussed.Comment: 39 pages, minor correctionKeywords
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