A landscape of AdS flux vacua

We analyse type IIA Calabi-Yau orientifolds with background fluxes and D6- branes. Rewriting the F-term scalar potential as a bilinear in flux-axion polynomials yields a more efficient description of the Landscape of flux vacua, as they are invariant under the discrete shift symmetries of the 4d eff...

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Autores: Marchesano, Fernando, Quirant, J.
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2019
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositório:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/376601
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/376601
Access Level:Acceso aberto
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Resumo:We analyse type IIA Calabi-Yau orientifolds with background fluxes and D6- branes. Rewriting the F-term scalar potential as a bilinear in flux-axion polynomials yields a more efficient description of the Landscape of flux vacua, as they are invariant under the discrete shift symmetries of the 4d effective theory. In particular, expressing the extremisa­ tion conditions of the scalar potential in terms of such polynomials allows for a systematic search of vacua. We classify families of = 0 Minkowski, N = 1 AdS and N = 0 AdS flux vacua, extending previous Nfindings in the literature to the Calabi-Yau context. We compute the spectrum of flux-induced masses for some of them and show that they are perturbatively stable, and in particular find a branch of N = 0 AdS vacua where tachyons are absent. Finally, we extend this Landscape to the open string sector by including mobile D6-branes and their fluxes.