• DOI:10.1103/RevModPhys.79.733
Corpus ID: 119471619

Flux Compactification

@inproceedings{Douglas2006FluxC,
  title={Flux Compactification},
  author={M. Douglas and S. Kachru},
  year={2006}
}

M. Douglas, S. Kachru

Published 2006

Physics

We review recent work in which compactifications of string and M theory are constructed in which all scalar fields (moduli) are massive, and supersymmetry is broken with a small positive cosmological constant, features needed to reproduce real world physics. We explain how this work implies that there is a “landscape” of string/M theory vacua, perhaps containing many candidates for describing real world physics, and present the arguments for and against this idea. We discuss statistical surveys… CONTINUE READING

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