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Bare-bones de Sitter vacua

Iosif Bena1, Emilian Dudas2,3, Mariana Graña1, Gabriele Lo Monaco1, and Dimitrios Toulikas1

  • 1Institut de Physique Théorique, Université Paris Saclay, CEA, CNRS, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • 2Centre de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
  • 3Theory Division, Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

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Phys. Rev. D 108, L021901 – Published 20 July, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.L021901

Abstract

We compute the supersymmetry-breaking three-form fluxes generated by the addition of anti-D3 branes at the tip of a Klebanov-Strassler throat. These fluxes give rise to nontrivial terms in the superpotential when the throat is embedded in a flux compactification. We describe these terms both from a ten-dimensional and from a four-dimensional perspective and show that, upon including Kähler-moduli stabilization, the resulting potential admits de Sitter minima. Our proposed de Sitter construction does not require additional supersymmetry-breaking (0,3) fluxes, and hence is more minimalist than the KKLT proposal.

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Phys. Rev. D 108, L021901– Published 20 July, 2023
  • Received 8 April 2022
  • Revised 16 January 2023
  • Accepted 22 June 2023
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