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Warped vacuum statistics
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Warped vacuum statistics

Pontus Ahlqvist, Brian R. Greene and David Kagan
The journal of high energy physics, Vol.2012(7), 066
07/01/2012

Abstract

Physical Sciences Physics Physics, Particles & Fields Science & Technology
We consider the effect of warping on the distribution of type IIB flux vacua constructed with Calabi-Yau orientifolds. We derive an analytical form of the distribution that incorporates warping and find close agreement with the results of a Monte Carlo enumeration of vacua. Compared with calculations that neglect warping, we find that for any finite volume compactification, the density of vacua is highly diluted in close proximity to the conifold point, with a steep drop-off within a critical distance.

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