Conifold Vacua with Small Flux Superpotential

TL;DR

This paper presents a method to identify type IIB string theory flux vacua with exponentially small superpotentials and stabilized moduli near conifold points, advancing understanding of string compactifications.

Contribution

The authors introduce a novel approach to find flux vacua with small superpotentials and moduli stabilization near conifold points in type IIB string theory.

Findings

Successfully identified flux vacua with exponentially small superpotentials.

Demonstrated stabilization of complex structure moduli near conifold points.

Provided a new framework for studying string compactifications with small flux superpotentials.

Abstract

We introduce a method for finding flux vacua of type IIB string theory in which the flux superpotential is exponentially small and at the same time one or more complex structure moduli are stabilized exponentially near to conifold points.