Constraints on meta-stable de Sitter flux vacua

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2009.V13.N1.A6zbMATH Open1173.83323arXivhep-th/0702204MaRDI QIDQ1027111FDOQ1027111

Authors: Masoud Soroush 

Publication date: 30 June 2009

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider flux compactification of type IIB string theory as the orientifold limit of an F-theory on a Calabi-Yau fourfold. We show that when supersymmetry is dominantly broken by the axion-dilaton and the contributions of the F-terms associated with complex structure moduli are small, the Hessian of the flux potential always has tachyonic modes for de Sitter vacua. This implies that there exist no meta-stable de Sitter vacua in this limit. Moreover, we find that the stability requirement imposes a relation between the values of cosmological constant and the scale of supersymmetry breaking for non-supersymmetric anti de Sitter vacua in this limit. The proof is general and does not rely on the details of the geometry of the compact Calabi-Yau internal space. We finally analyze the consequences of these constraints on the statistics of meta-stable de Sitter vacua and address some other related issues.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0702204

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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