The wasteland of random supergravities
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Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Generation, random and stochastic difference and differential equations (37H10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50)
Abstract: We show that in a general cal{N} = 1 supergravity with N gg 1 scalar fields, an exponentially small fraction of the de Sitter critical points are metastable vacua. Taking the superpotential and Kahler potential to be random functions, we construct a random matrix model for the Hessian matrix, which is well-approximated by the sum of a Wigner matrix and two Wishart matrices. We compute the eigenvalue spectrum analytically from the free convolution of the constituent spectra and find that in typical configurations, a significant fraction of the eigenvalues are negative. Building on the Tracy-Widom law governing fluctuations of extreme eigenvalues, we determine the probability P of a large fluctuation in which all the eigenvalues become positive. Strong eigenvalue repulsion makes this extremely unlikely: we find P propto exp(-c N^p), with c, p being constants. For generic critical points we find p approx 1.5, while for approximately-supersymmetric critical points, p approx 1.3. Our results have significant implications for the counting of de Sitter vacua in string theory, but the number of vacua remains vast.
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