Moduli stabilization from magnetic fluxes in type I string theory

Dec, 2004
34 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 716 (2005) 3-32
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Report number:
  • CERN-PH-TH-2004-240

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Abstract:
We show that type I string theory compactified in four dimensions in the presence of constant internal magnetic fields possesses N=1 supersymmetric vacua, in which all Kahler class and complex structure closed string moduli are fixed. Furthermore, their values can be made arbitrarily large by a suitable tuning of the quantized magnetic fluxes. We present an explicit example for the toroidal compactification on T^6 and discuss Calabi-Yau generalizations. This mechanism can be complementary to other stabilization methods using closed string fluxes but has the advantage of having an exact string description and thus a validity away from the low-energy supergravity approximation. Moreover, it can be easily implemented in constructions of string models based on intersecting D-branes.
  • 11.25.Mj
  • string model
  • supersymmetry
  • compactification: torus
  • moduli space
  • stability
  • charge: conservation law
  • vacuum state
  • perturbation theory: higher-order
  • flux: magnetic