New Attractors and Area Codes

TL;DR

This paper provides examples of New Attractors in IIB string theory, illustrating multiple basins of attraction for flux vacua and black holes, and highlighting the rich structure of the string landscape.

Contribution

It introduces multiple explicit examples of New Attractors for flux vacua and black holes, demonstrating complex basin structures and the potential for multiple vacua in specific regions of moduli space.

Findings

Existence of non-supersymmetric extremal black hole attractors on a hypersurface in $WP^{4}_{1,1,1,1,2}$.

Multiple basins of attraction for flux vacua near the Landau-Ginzburg and conifold points.

Fluxes can produce multiple supersymmetric vacua within finite moduli space regions.

Abstract

In this note we give multiple examples of the recently proposed New Attractors describing supersymmetric flux vacua and non-supersymmetric extremal black holes in IIB string theory. Examples of non-supersymmetric extremal black hole attractors arise on a hypersurface in $WP^{4}_{1,1,1,1,2}$. For flux vacua on the orientifold of the same hypersurface existence of multiple basins of attraction is established. It is explained that certain fluxes may give rise to multiple supersymmetric flux vacua in a finite region on moduli space, say at the Landau-Ginzburg point and close to conifold point. This suggests the existence of multiple basins for flux vacua and domain walls in the landscape for a fixed flux and at interior points in moduli space.