Conifolds and tunneling in the string landscape

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2011)119zbMATH Open1301.81173arXiv1011.6588OpenAlexW2103571727MaRDI QIDQ475893FDOQ475893

Authors: Pontus Ahlqvist, David Kagan, Eugene A. Lim, Saswat Sarangi, I-Sheng Yang, Brian R. Greene 

Publication date: 27 November 2014

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

Abstract: We investigate flux vacua on a variety of one-parameter Calabi-Yau compactifications, and find many examples that are connected through continuous monodromy transformations. For these, we undertake a detailed analysis of the tunneling dynamics and find that tunneling trajectories typically graze the conifold point---particular 3-cycles are forced to contract during such vacuum transitions. Physically, these transitions arise from the competing effects of minimizing the energy for brane nucleation (facilitating a change in flux), versus the energy cost associated with dynamical changes in the periods of certain Calabi-Yau 3-cycles. We find that tunneling only occurs when warping due to back-reaction from the flux through the shrinking cycle is properly taken into account.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6588

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zbMATH Keywords

D-branesflux compactificationsnonperturbative effectssuperstring vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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