The Tadpole Problem
Organizers
Hamed Adami
,
Chi Ming Chang
,
Mohammad Yavartanoo
Speaker
Iosif Bena
Time
Thursday, July 7, 2022 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Venue
1129B
Online
Zoom 361 038 6975
(BIMSA)
Abstract
The fluxes that stabilize the complex-structure moduli of string compactifications give rise to a nontrivial D3 charge, which needs to be canceled by other objects in the compactification. I will present arguments that this is impossible when the number of complex-structure moduli is large. This indicates that all String-Theory compactifications on manifolds with a large number of complex-structure moduli have massless scalars and hence are not suited for phenomenology.