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Title: On Vanishing Two Loop Cosmological Constants in Nonsupersymmetric Strings

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/9938· OSTI ID:9938

It has recently been suggested that in certain special nonsupersymmetric type II string compactifications, at least the first two perturbative contributions to the cosmological constant Lambda vanish. Support for perturbative vanishing beyond 1-loop (as well as evidence for the absence of some nonperturbative contributions) has come from duality arguments. There was also a direct 2-loop computation which was incomplete; in this note we explain the deficiency of the previous 2-loop calculation and discuss the complete 2-loop computation in two different models. The corrected analysis yields a vanishing 2-loop contribution to Lambda in these models.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
9938
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-7970; TRN: US0401835
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 22 Oct 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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