Moduli Stabilization from Fluxes in a Simple IIB Orientifold Export

@article{citeulike:5936790, abstract = {We study novel type IIB compactifications on the T^6/Z\_2 orientifold. This geometry arises in the T-dual description of Type I theory on T^6, and one normally introduces 16 space-filling D3-branes to cancel the RR tadpoles. Here, we cancel the RR tadpoles either partially or fully by turning on three-form flux in the compact geometry. The resulting (super)potential for moduli is calculable. We demonstrate that one can find many examples of N=1 supersymmetric vacua with greatly reduced numbers of moduli in this system. A few examples with N\>1 supersymmetry or complete supersymmetry breaking are also discussed.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Kachru, Shamit and Schulz, Michael and Trivedi, Sandip}, citeulike-article-id = {5936790}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201028}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0201028}, day = {6}, eprint = {hep-th/0201028}, keywords = {compactification, strings}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2009-10-13 16:23:42}, priority = {5}, title = {Moduli Stabilization from Fluxes in a Simple IIB Orientifold}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201028}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5936790 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5936790 N2 - We study novel type IIB compactifications on the T^6/Z_2 orientifold. This geometry arises in the T-dual description of Type I theory on T^6, and one normally introduces 16 space-filling D3-branes to cancel the RR tadpoles. Here, we cancel the RR tadpoles either partially or fully by turning on three-form flux in the compact geometry. The resulting (super)potential for moduli is calculable. We demonstrate that one can find many examples of N=1 supersymmetric vacua with greatly reduced numbers of moduli in this system. A few examples with N>1 supersymmetry or complete supersymmetry breaking are also discussed. TI - Moduli Stabilization from Fluxes in a Simple IIB Orientifold KW - compactification KW - strings AU - Kachru, Shamit AU - Schulz, Michael AU - Trivedi, Sandip PY - 2002/Feb/06/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201028 ER -