Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1842722 | Nuclear Physics B | 2007 | 46 Pages |
Abstract
Type II orientifolds based on Landau-Ginzburg models are used to describe moduli stabilization for flux compactifications of type II theories from the world-sheet CFT point of view. We show that for certain types of type IIB orientifolds which have no Kähler moduli and are therefore intrinsically non-geometric, all moduli can be explicitly stabilized in terms of fluxes. The resulting four-dimensional theories can describe Minkowski as well as anti-de Sitter vacua. This construction provides the first string vacuum with all moduli frozen and leading to a 4D Minkowski background.
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Authors
Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, Cumrun Vafa, Johannes Walcher,