Published April 2007
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Journal article
Flux compactification
- 1. Department of Physics and SLAC, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 (United States) and Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States)
- 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855 (United States) and Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, 35 route des Chartres, Bures-sur-Yvette 91440 (France)
Description
Recent work is reviewed 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. In this work it is explained that there is a 'landscape' of string/M theory vacua, perhaps containing many candidates for describing real world physics, and arguments are presented for and against this idea. Statistical surveys of the landscape are discussed, as well as the prospects for testable consequences of this picture, such as observable effects of moduli, constraints on early cosmology, and predictions for the scale of supersymmetry breaking
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/RevModPhys.79.733;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0610102v3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Reviews of Modern Physics
- Journal Volume
- 79
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 733-796
- ISSN
- 0034-6861
- CODEN
- RMPHAT
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39035893
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPACTIFICATION; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; COSMOLOGY; SCALAR FIELDS; STRING THEORY; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING
- Descriptors DEC
- M-THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYMMETRY
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2007 The American Physical Society