PIRSA:11090102

Vacuum States of String Theory or A Des Res in the Landscape

Candelas, P. (2011). Vacuum States of String Theory or A Des Res in the Landscape . Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/11090102

Candelas, Philip. Vacuum States of String Theory or A Des Res in the Landscape . Perimeter Institute, Sep. 28, 2011, https://pirsa.org/11090102 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:11090102,
            doi = {10.48660/11090102},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/11090102},
            author = {Candelas, Philip},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {Vacuum States of String Theory or A Des Res in the Landscape },
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2011},
            month = {sep},
            note = {PIRSA:11090102 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Philip Candelas University of Oxford

DOI 10.48660/11090102
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series

Abstract

String theory, famously, has a great many ground states. So many, in fact, that some argue that we should seek information in the statistical properties of these vacua, or worse, argue that we should abandon string theory as a theory with predictive power. On the other hand, very few vacua are known that look like the observed world of particle physics. In this talk I will review this situation and show that there are realistic models at the tip of the distribution of vacua, where topological complexity is minimised.