Hunting for Special Solutions in Calabi-Yau Compactifications
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this thesis, we discuss approaches to various problems in the field of geometric moduli stabilization in type IIB string theory. We introduce the physics and mathematics of Calabi-Yau compactifications, flux compactifications, and attractor black holes. With these tools we investigate the construction of explicit, analytical flux solutions that generate vacua with small and nonvanishing superpotential and connect these solutions to old ideas in number theory about approximations of irrational numbers. Finally, we detail the statistical theory of vacua in moduli space and cite some new and old results as they pertain to non-supersymmetric vacua and non-BPS attractor black holes.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | May 15, 2019 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Hulsey, George |
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| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Physics |
| Primary advisor | Kachru, Shamit |
| Advisor | Raghu, Sri |
Subjects
| Subject | string theory |
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| Subject | Calabi-Yau manifolds |
| Subject | moduli stabilization |
| Genre | Thesis |
Bibliographic information
| Related Publication | George Hulsey, Shamit Kachru, Sungyeon Yang, and Max Zimet. “Distributions of extremal black holes in Calabi-Yau compactifications”. arXiv e-prints arXiv:1901.10614 [hep-th], Jan 2019. |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/rc502rs5136 |
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- Hulsey, George. (2019). Hunting for Special Solutions in Calabi-Yau Compactifications. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/rc502rs5136
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Undergraduate Theses, Department of Physics
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