Statistics of String vacua
Michael R. Douglas
TL;DR
This paper introduces a statistical framework for analyzing string/M theory vacua, focusing on counting supersymmetric flux vacua in type IIb Calabi-Yau compactifications, highlighting recent key results.
Contribution
It presents a statistical approach to string vacua and discusses recent advances in counting supersymmetric flux vacua in specific compactifications.
Findings
Counting of supersymmetric flux vacua in type IIb Calabi-Yau compactifications.
Discussion of recent results by Ashok and Douglas.
Introduction of a statistical methodology for string vacua analysis.
Abstract
We give an introduction to the statistical approach to studying vacua of string/M theory, and discuss recent results of Ashok and Douglas on counting supersymmetric flux vacua in type IIb Calabi-Yau compactification. To appear in the proceedings of the 2003 String Phenomenology workshop in Durham, UK.
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlack Holes and Theoretical Physics · Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions