Logarithmic loop corrections, moduli stabilisation and De Sitter vacua in string theory

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DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)149zbMATH Open1434.83140arXiv1909.10525OpenAlexW2975731726WikidataQ126289561 ScholiaQ126289561MaRDI QIDQ2185339FDOQ2185339


Authors: I. Antoniadis, Yifan Chen, G. K. Leontaris Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 4 June 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study string loop corrections to the gravity kinetic terms in type IIB compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds or their orbifold limits, in the presence of D7-branes and orientifold planes. We show that they exhibit in general a logarithmic behaviour in the large volume limit transverse to the D7-branes, induced by a localised four-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action that appears at a lower order in the closed string sector, found in the past. Here, we compute the coefficient of the logarithmic corrections and use them to provide an explicit realisation of a mechanism for K"ahler moduli stabilisation that we have proposed recently, which does not rely on non-perturbative effects and lead to de Sitter vacua. Our result avoids no-go theorems of perturbative stabilisation due to runaway potentials, in a way similar to the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism, and provides a counter example to one of the swampland conjectures concerning de Sitter vacua in quantum gravity, once string loop effects are taken into account; it thus paves the way for embedding the Standard Model of particle physics and cosmology in string theory.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10525




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