Flux compactification
Journal Article
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· Reviews of Modern Physics
- 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)
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.
- OSTI ID:
- 21013708
- Journal Information:
- Reviews of Modern Physics, Journal Name: Reviews of Modern Physics Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 79; ISSN 0034-6861; ISSN RMPHAT
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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