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Distributions of flux vacua

Abstract

We give results for the distribution and number of flux vacua of various types, supersymmetric and nonsupersymmetric, in IIB string theory compactified on Calabi-Yau manifolds. We compare this with related problems such as counting attractor points.

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© Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing Limited 2004. Received 21 May 2004, accepted for publication 27 May 2004. Published 28 June 2004. We thank B. Acharya, B. Florea, S. Kachru, R. Kallosh, G. Moore, B. Shiffman, S. Shenker, E. Silverstein, S. Thomas, P.M.H. Wilson, E. Witten, S.T. Yau and S. Zelditch for discussions and correspondence. We particularly thank S. Kachru for communications regarding the work [28] in progress, which stimulated us to revise section 5. This research was supported in part by DOE grant E-FG02-96ER40959. M.R.D. is supported by the Gordon Moore Distinguished Scholar program at Caltech.

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