34 research outputs found
R Symmetries in the Landscape
In the landscape, states with symmetries at the classical level form a
distinct branch, with a potentially interesting phenomenology. Some preliminary
analyses suggested that the population of these states would be significantly
suppressed. We survey orientifolds of IIB theories compactified on Calabi-Yau
spaces based on vanishing polynomials in weighted projective spaces, and find
that the suppression is quite substantial. On the other hand, we find that a
R-parity is a common feature in the landscape. We discuss whether the
cosmological constant and proton decay or cosmology might select the low energy
branch. We include also some remarks on split supersymmetry.Comment: 13 page
Open-closed duality and Double Scaling
Nonperturbative terms in the free energy of Chern-Simons gauge theory play a
key role in its duality to the closed topological string. We show that these
terms are reproduced by performing a double scaling limit near the point where
the perturbation expansion diverges. This leads to a derivation of closed
string theory from this large-N gauge theory along the lines of noncritical
string theories. We comment on the possible relevance of this observation to
the derivation of superpotentials of asymptotically free gauge theories and its
relation to infrared renormalons.Comment: 10 pages, LaTe
Uplifting and Inflation with D3 Branes
Back-reaction effects can modify the dynamics of mobile D3 branes moving
within type IIB vacua, in a way which has recently become calculable. We
identify some of the ways these effects can alter inflationary scenarios, with
the following three results: (1) By examining how the forces on the brane due
to moduli-stabilizing interactions modify the angular motion of D3 branes
moving in Klebanov-Strassler type throats, we show how previous slow-roll
analyses can remain unchanged for some brane trajectories, while being modified
for other trajectories. These forces cause the D3 brane to sink to the bottom
of the throat except in a narrow region close to the D7 brane, and do not
ameliorate the \eta-problem of slow roll inflation in these throats; (2) We
argue that a recently-proposed back-reaction on the dilaton field can be used
to provide an alternative way of uplifting these compactifications to Minkowski
or De Sitter vacua, without the need for a supersymmetry-breaking anti-D3
brane; and (3) by including also the D-term forces which arise when
supersymmetry-breaking fluxes are included on D7 branes we identify the 4D
supergravity interactions which capture the dynamics of D3 motion in D3/D7
inflationary scenarios. The form of these potentials sheds some light on recent
discussions of how symmetries constrain D term interactions in the low-energy
theory.Comment: JHEP.cls, 35 pages, 3 .eps figure