Stabilizing massless fields with fluxes in Landau-Ginzburg models
Abstract Recent work on flux compactifications suggests that the tadpole constraint generically allows only a limited number of complex structure moduli to become massive, i.e., be stabilized at quadratic order in the spacetime superpotential. We study the effects of higher-order terms systematicall...
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| author | Katrin Becker Muthusamy Rajaguru Anindya Sengupta Johannes Walcher Timm Wrase |
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| description | Abstract Recent work on flux compactifications suggests that the tadpole constraint generically allows only a limited number of complex structure moduli to become massive, i.e., be stabilized at quadratic order in the spacetime superpotential. We study the effects of higher-order terms systematically around the Fermat point in the 19 Landau-Ginzburg model. This model lives at strong coupling and features no Kähler moduli. We show that indeed massless fields can be stabilized in this fashion. We observe that, depending on the flux, this mechanism is more effective when the number of initially massless fields is large. These findings are compatible with both the tadpole conjecture and the massless Minkowski conjecture. Along the way, we complete the classification of integral flux vectors with small tadpole contribution. Thereby we are closing in on a future complete understanding of all possible flux configurations in the 19 Landau-Ginzburg model. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7b0fbd2ec6834c9484364737e470a8b32024-11-24T12:05:34ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792024-08-012024813410.1007/JHEP08(2024)069Stabilizing massless fields with fluxes in Landau-Ginzburg modelsKatrin Becker0Muthusamy Rajaguru1Anindya Sengupta2Johannes Walcher3Timm Wrase4George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M UniversityDepartment of Physics, Lehigh UniversityGeorge P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M UniversityInstitute for Mathematics and Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergDepartment of Physics, Lehigh UniversityAbstract Recent work on flux compactifications suggests that the tadpole constraint generically allows only a limited number of complex structure moduli to become massive, i.e., be stabilized at quadratic order in the spacetime superpotential. We study the effects of higher-order terms systematically around the Fermat point in the 19 Landau-Ginzburg model. This model lives at strong coupling and features no Kähler moduli. We show that indeed massless fields can be stabilized in this fashion. We observe that, depending on the flux, this mechanism is more effective when the number of initially massless fields is large. These findings are compatible with both the tadpole conjecture and the massless Minkowski conjecture. Along the way, we complete the classification of integral flux vectors with small tadpole contribution. Thereby we are closing in on a future complete understanding of all possible flux configurations in the 19 Landau-Ginzburg model.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2024)069Flux CompactificationsSuperstring VacuaString and Brane Phenomenology |
| spellingShingle | Katrin Becker Muthusamy Rajaguru Anindya Sengupta Johannes Walcher Timm Wrase Stabilizing massless fields with fluxes in Landau-Ginzburg models Journal of High Energy Physics Flux Compactifications Superstring Vacua String and Brane Phenomenology |
| title | Stabilizing massless fields with fluxes in Landau-Ginzburg models |
| title_full | Stabilizing massless fields with fluxes in Landau-Ginzburg models |
| title_fullStr | Stabilizing massless fields with fluxes in Landau-Ginzburg models |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stabilizing massless fields with fluxes in Landau-Ginzburg models |
| title_short | Stabilizing massless fields with fluxes in Landau-Ginzburg models |
| title_sort | stabilizing massless fields with fluxes in landau ginzburg models |
| topic | Flux Compactifications Superstring Vacua String and Brane Phenomenology |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2024)069 |
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