Fully stabilized Minkowski vacua in the $2^6$ Landau-Ginzburg model

Muthusamy Rajaguru (Lehigh U, Bethlehem)

Jul 18. 2024, 11:00 — 11:30

We study moduli stabilization via fluxes in the $2^6$ Landau-Ginzburg model. Fluxes not only give masses to scalar fields but can also induce higher order couplings that stabilize massless fields. We investigate this for several different flux choices in the $2^6$ model and find an example that is inconsistent with the Refined Tadpole Conjecture. We also present, to our knowledge, the first 4d N=1 Minkowski solution in string theory without any flat direction. 

Further Information
Venue:
ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall
Recordings:
Recording
Associated Event:
The Landscape vs. the Swampland (Thematic Programme)
Organizer(s):
Gary Shiu (U of Wisconsin-Madison)
Washington Taylor (MIT, Cambridge)
Irene Valenzuela (CERN, Geneva)
Timm Wrase (Lehigh U, Bethlehem)