Towards Minkowski vacua in type II string compactifications

Andrei Micu; Eran Palti; Gianmassimo Tasinato

doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/104

Towards Minkowski vacua in type II string compactifications

Andrei Micu, Eran Palti, Gianmassimo Tasinato

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Abstract

We study the vacuum structure of compactifications of type II string theories on orientifolds with SU(3) × SU(3) structure. We argue that generalised geometry enables us to treat these non-geometric compactifications using a supergravity analysis in a way very similar to geometric compactifications. We find supersymmetric Minkowski vacua with all the moduli stabilised at weak string coupling and all the tadpole conditions satisfied. Generically the value of the moduli fields in the vacuum is parametrically controlled and can be taken to arbitrarily large values.

Original language	English
Article number	104
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2007
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/104
State	Published - 1 Mar 2007
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Flux compactifications
String duality
Superstring vacua

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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