A ds obstruction and its phenomenological consequences

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2020)114zbMATH Open1437.83144arXiv2001.11023MaRDI QIDQ779385FDOQ779385

Gerben Venken, Thomas Van Riet, Miguel Montero

Publication date: 21 July 2020

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

Abstract: In this note we observe that positive runaway potentials can generically be stabilized by abelian $p$-form fluxes, leading to parametrically controlled de Sitter solutions after compactification to a lower dimension. When compactifying from 4d to 2d the dS solutions are metastable, whereas all higher dimensional cases are unstable. The existence of these dS solutions require that a certain inequality involving the derivatives of the potential and $p$-form gauge coupling is satisfied. This inequality is not satisfied in simple stringy examples (outside of the scope of Maldacena-Nu~nez), which unsurprisingly avoid this route to dS solutions. We can apply our techniques to construct $d{S}_2$ solutions in the Standard Model plus an additional runaway scalar such as quintessence. Demanding that these are avoided leads to (weak) phenomenological constraints on the time variation of the fine structure constant and QCD axion-photon coupling.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11023

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zbMATH Keywords

black holes in string theoryflux compactifications

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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