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A flux-scaling scenario for high-scale moduli stabilization in string theory. (English) Zbl 1329.81304

Summary: Tree-level moduli stabilization via geometric and non-geometric fluxes in type IIB orientifolds on Calabi-Yau manifolds is investigated. The focus is on stable non-supersymmetric minima, where all moduli are fixed except for some massless axions. The scenario includes the purely axionic orientifold-odd moduli. A set of vacua allowing for parametric control over the moduli vacuum expectation values and their masses is presented, featuring a specific scaling with the fluxes. Uplift mechanisms and supersymmetry breaking soft masses on MSSM-like D7-branes are discussed as well. This scenario provides a complete effective framework for realizing the idea of F-term axion monodromy inflation in string theory. It is argued that, with all masses close to the Planck and GUT scales, one is confronted with working at the threshold of controlling all mass hierarchies.

MSC:

81T30 String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory
14D21 Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory)
14J32 Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects)
81T60 Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics
81R40 Symmetry breaking in quantum theory
81V22 Unified quantum theories

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