An open string landscape

2005/06/30 by Jaume Gomis, Fernando Marchesano, David Mateos · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2005/11/021

published as JHEP 0511 (2005) 021 · 28 pages, 3 figures, JHEP. Minor corrections, one reference added

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Abstract

The effect of fluxes on open string moduli is studied by analyzing the constraints imposed by supersymmetry on D-branes in type IIB flux backgrounds. We show that generically the conditions of supersymmetry cannot be maintained when moving along the geometrical moduli space of the brane, so that open string moduli are lifted. We argue that there is a disconnected and discrete set of supersymmetric solutions to the open string equations of motion, which extends the familiar closed string landscape to the open string sector.

Citations

• Flux-induced SUSY-breaking soft terms on D7–D3 brane systems
• Supersymmetric three-form flux perturbations onAdS5
• Non-Kähler string backgrounds and their five torsion classes
• The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory
• κ-symmetry, supersymmetry and intersecting branes
• de Sitter Vacua in String Theory

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• Enhanced symmetries in multiparameter flux vacua
• The geometry of D-brane superpotentials