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Metastable Domains of the Landscape

Authors :
Dine, Michael
Festuccia, Guido
Morisse, Alexander
Broek, Korneel van den
Source :
JHEP0806:014,2008
Publication Year :
2007

Abstract

We argue that the vast majority of flux vacua with small cosmological constant are unstable to rapid decay to a big crunch. Exceptions are states with large compactification volume and supersymmetric and approximately supersymmetric states. Neither weak string coupling, warping, or the existence of very light particles are, by themselves, enough to render states reasonably metastable. We speculate, as well, about states which might be cosmological attractors.<br />Comment: 20 pages

Subjects

Subjects :
High Energy Physics - Theory

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
JHEP0806:014,2008
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.0712.1397
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/014