The string landscape: On formulas for counting vacua
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Friedmann, Tamar
Stanley, Richard P
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December 2012
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Nuclear Physics B
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Elsevier
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Friedmann, Tamar, and Richard P. Stanley. “The String Landscape: On Formulas for Counting Vacua.” Nuclear Physics B 869.1 (2013): 74–88.
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Abstract
We derive formulas for counting certain classes of vacua in the string/M theory landscape. We do so in the context of the moduli space of M-theory compactifications on singular manifolds with G2 holonomy. Particularly, we count the numbers of gauge theories with different gauge groups but equal numbers of U(1) factors which are dual to each other. The vacua correspond to various symmetry breaking patterns of grand unified theories. Counting these dual vacua is equivalent to counting the number of conjugacy classes of elements of finite order inside Lie groups. We also point out certain cases where the conventional expectation is that symmetry breaking patterns by Wilson lines and Higgs fields are the same, but we show they are in fact different.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2012.11.019
