Enumerating Flux Vacua with Enhanced Symmetries

Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory

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83 pages, 8 figures, harvmac. v2: references added, typos fixed, brief discussion of complex conjugation in sec. 5 added

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10.1088/1126-6708/2005/02/037

We study properties of flux vacua in type IIB string theory in several simple but illustrative models. We initiate the study of the relative frequencies of vacua with vanishing superpotential W=0 and with certain discrete symmetries. For the models we investigate we also compute the overall rate of growth of the number of vacua as a function of the D3-brane charge associated to the fluxes, and the distribution of vacua on the moduli space. The latter two questions can also be addressed by the statistical theory developed by Ashok, Denef and Douglas, and our results are in good agreement with their predictions. Analysis of the first two questions requires methods which are more number-theoretic in nature. We develop some elementary techniques of this type, which are based on arithmetic properties of the periods of the compactification geometry at the points in moduli space where the flux vacua are located.

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