Counting Flux Vacua

Preprint

12 January 2004

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/0307049

Abstract

We develop a technique for computing expected numbers of vacua in Gaussian ensembles of supergravity theories, and apply it to derive an asymptotic formula for the index counting all flux supersymmetric vacua with signs in Calabi-Yau compactification of type IIb string theory, which becomes exact in the limit of a large number of fluxes. This should give a reasonable estimate for actual numbers of vacua in string theory, for CY's with small b_3.

Keywords

COMPUTING EXPECTED
EXPECTED NUMBERS
COUNTING FLUX
STRING THEORY
FLUX VACUA
THEORY
CALABI
VACUA

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Published version: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2004 (01), 060.

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