PIRSA:07120043

(almost) Stable Islands in the Landscape

(2007). (almost) Stable Islands in the Landscape. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/07120043

(almost) Stable Islands in the Landscape. Perimeter Institute, Dec. 06, 2007, https://pirsa.org/07120043 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:07120043,
            doi = {10.48660/07120043},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/07120043},
            author = {},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {(almost) Stable Islands in the Landscape},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2007},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:07120043 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
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We will consider stability in the string theory landscape. A survey over several classes of flux vacua with different characteristics indicates that the vast majority of flux vacua with small cosmological constant are unstable to rapid decay to a big crunch. Only vacua with large compactification radius or (approximately) supersymmetric configurations turn out to be long lived. We will speculate that regions of the landscape with approximate R-symmetry, while rare, might be cosmological attractors.