Hierarchies from Fluxes in String Compactifications

Joseph Polchinski; Shamit Kachru; Steven B. Giddings

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Hierarchies from Fluxes in String Compactifications

Steven B. Giddings, Shamit Kachru, Joseph Polchinski

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 10 May 2001 · 50 references

Pith's verdict: The founding paper of the flux-compactification program: the warped hierarchy is real, fixed by flux integers, and cross-checked against the KS cascade — the F-theory branch leans on an uncomputed SUSY argument, but the O3 route carries the claim.

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CitationJoseph Polchinski, Shamit Kachru, Steven B. Giddings. "Hierarchies from Fluxes in String Compactifications." arXiv:hep-th/0105097 (2001). https://pith.science/paper/M2UXTJGT

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Short version: this is the paper that turned the RS/Verlinde warped-hierarchy idea into an actual string compactification, and it holds up. The hierarchy is fixed by quantized flux integers M and K, and the resulting z ~ exp(-2πK/3Mg_s) is cross-checked against the Klebanov-Strassler beta-function cascade. That cross-check is what makes this more than a repackaging of KS — the 4d effective action reproduces the gauge theory's RG flow, and the two derivations are genuinely independent. [abstract:s1, abstract:s2] are earned, not asserted. The explicit fourfold with χ/24 = 72 in §4.2.1 is a real construction, not a gesture at one, and the orientifold limit is worked out concretely enough to check by hand. The global constraint analysis in §2 is the other durable piece: the no-go theorem is evaded by negative-tension sources, and the BPS-like bound (2.26) is what converts the integrated constraint (2.30) into imaginary-self-dual G(3) and e^{4A} = α. That derivation is clean. On soft spots, the stress-test concern lands but is narrower than it sounds. For D3-branes and O3 planes the bound is manifest (T^m_m = 0, eq. 2.27), and the O3 orientifold examples in §4.1 carry the abstract's claim on their own. The F-theory 7-brane saturation is inferred from unbroken N=1 rather than computed — the paper says so outright in §2.2.1 — and that is a real gap, but it is confined to the F-theory branch and the authors flag it. The (0,3) flux absence argued from holomorphy in §3 is heuristic; I would have liked more. One correction to the record: the classifier reports no stated limitations, which is wrong. The paper is explicit that the radial modulus ρ is unfixed, that the dilaton needs extra flux (K' on B') beyond the minimal KS configuration, and that α' corrections will spoil the no-scale structure. Those are acknowledged, not hidden, and ρ-stabilization is the open problem KKLT later picked up. Who should read it: anyone working on warped compactifications, flux vacua, or hierarchies from extra dimensions. It is a required citation, not an optional one. Send it to referees — the F-theory tension argument deserves a careful look, and the paper is important enough to warrant the time.

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If correct, this is a foundational result: it converts the Randall-Sundrum and Verlinde warping mechanisms into genuine, nonsingular, compact string backgrounds in which the exponential hierarchy is a function of integer flux quantum numbers. The paper's strengths are substantial and should be named. The hierarchy is parameter-free in the sense that, once the Calabi-Yau geometry and the integers M and K are chosen, the exponent is fixed with no adjustable continuous input, and it is independently cross-checked against the known KS beta-function cascade in Section 3, which is a genuine consistency test rather than a restatement. The ten-dimensional constraint analysis of Section 2.2 is clean and yields the imaginary-self-dual condition and the no-scale structure as outputs rather than assumptions. Section 4 supplies an explicit fourfold with a computed Euler number and an explicit collapsing three-cycle, and Section 4.2.2 exhibits the orientifold limit, so the construction is concrete rather than schematic. The identification of the radial modulus as an unavoidable flat direction is stated honestly and has framed a decade of subsequent work on modulus stabilization.

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[Section 2.2.1, Eq. (2.26)] The step from the integrated constraint (2.30) to the imaginary-self-dual condition (2.31) and e^{4A} = alpha (2.32) requires the BPS-like bound (2.26) to hold for every localized source. For D3-branes and O3 planes this is manifest from (2.27), and for K3-wrapped D7-branes the paper gives a credible argument from the Chern-Simons term (2.20) and the DBI curvature term (2.21). For general F-theory seven-brane wrappings, however, the text states that 'the direct calculation is beyond the scope of our work' and infers saturation from unbroken N=1 supersymmetry. The authors acknowledge this gap, so the point is not a new finding, but it remains the weakest link in the F-theory branch: (2.26) is an inequality on the stress tensor and D3 charge, and the supersymmetry argument is applied to the specific configuration of Section 4.2.1 rather than verified for a general divisor in the base. A concrete test would be to evaluate the alpha'-corrected tension and induced D3 charge for a general wrapping and check that the inequality is saturated, or at minimum to verify (2.26) explicitly for the model of Section 4.2.1. The O3 orientifold route is unaffected, so the abstract's claim survives through that channel, but the F-theory examples should be presented as conditional on this step.
[Section 3, Eqs. (3.15)-(3.18)] The discussion of dilaton stabilization is load-bearing for the claim that a consistent compact solution exists with z exponentially small and tau fixed, since Eq. (3.14) shows that the conifold fluxes alone leave D_tau W unsatisfiable. The proposed fix introduces an extra NS flux K' on a B' cycle, and Eq. (3.17) fixes tau-bar = M G(0) / (K' z'(0)). Substituting this into D_z W = 0 gives ln z = 2 pi i K G(0) / (K' z'(0)), so the exponent should be proportional to G(0)/z'(0) and should involve its real part for |z| to be exponentially small. Eq. (3.18) as printed reads z ~ exp(2 pi K / (K' Im[G(0)/z'(0)])), which omits the factor of M and uses Im rather than Re; with the stated solution for tau-bar the exponent is complex unless G(0)/z'(0) is purely imaginary, in which case it is a phase and no hierarchy results. The reality and sign of the exponent need to be shown explicitly, and the accompanying remark that 'additional structure may be required to ensure that this minimum is at weak coupling' should be backed by at least an estimate of the regime in which Im tau is large. This is a clarification of a secondary branch rather than a threat to the main result, which rests on (3.13) and (3.19), but it should be resolved before the compactness claim is stated without qualification.
[Abstract [abstract:s2], with Sections 2.2.4 and 5] The abstract states that 'the hierarchy of scales is fixed by a choice of RR and NS fluxes in the compact manifold', but Section 2.2.4 establishes that the radial modulus rho is an exact flat direction of the classical solution and Section 5 confirms that its stabilization is left open. The exponential redshift e^{A_min} is indeed flux-fixed, but the ratio of the infrared scale to the four-dimensional Planck scale also carries power-law dependence on the unstabilized compactification volume, since M_Pl^2 is set by the warped volume while the infrared scale is the local string scale redshifted by e^{A_min}. The absolute hierarchy therefore requires rho stabilization, and the abstract's phrasing should be qualified to say that the exponential factor is flux-fixed while the overall ratio awaits a mechanism for rho. The authors are clearly aware of the flat direction, so this is a request to make the qualification explicit in the abstract and in the Section 3 summary rather than a claim of error.

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[Section 3, Eq. (3.12)] The flux term is written as -i K g_s, whereas consistency with (3.13) and with tau = i/g_s requires -i K/g_s. As printed, (3.12) would give z ~ exp(-2 pi K g_s / M), the inverse of the stated result (3.13). Since (3.13) and (3.19) agree with the KS cascade, this appears to be a typographical slip, but it should be corrected because it sits in the central derivation.
[Section 3, Eq. (3.14) and Appendix, Eq. (2.44)] Eq. (3.14) uses the combination -K z tau-bar + M G, whereas (2.44) as printed writes the right-hand side as (1/(tau-bar - tau)) times the integral of G(3) wedge Omega. Direct evaluation of D_tau W gives (1/(tau-bar - tau)) times the integral of Omega wedge (F(3) - tau-bar H(3)), so the two expressions should be reconciled and (2.44) corrected.
[Section 2.1, Eqs. (2.14)-(2.15)] The passage from (2.14) to (2.15) is not shown, and the relative normalization of the (d alpha)^2 and (d e^{4A})^2 terms in (2.15) is not transparent. Since the no-go argument depends on every term on the right-hand side being positive, an explicit intermediate line would let the reader verify the coefficients without reconstructing the algebra.
[Section 3, illustrative values below Eq. (3.13)] The text offers M = 1 with K/g_s of order 5 as an example giving a large hierarchy, but Section 4.1 states that the supergravity description requires g_s N somewhat greater than one, which with M = 1 means g_s M = g_s < 1. The illustrative numbers should be flagged as indicative only, or replaced by values inside the stated regime of validity.
[Section 4.2.1, Eq. (4.9)] For the explicit fourfold the Euler number gives chi/24 = 72, so N = M K is bounded by 72, and the text notes that 'much larger values of chi, and thus larger values of K, are possible in other examples' without exhibiting one. A brief quantitative statement of the hierarchy attainable at N = 72 while respecting g_s M >> 1 would make the explicit example more convincing.
[Section 4.1] The text states that an explicit orientifold example is deferred to the F-theory discussion, and Section 4.2.2 does supply an orientifold limit. The forward reference should be made explicit at the end of Section 4.1 so that the O3-plane route, which is the branch where (2.26) is manifest, is not left looking unexemplified.
[Section 5 and footnote 1] The statement that toy models with all moduli stabilized by fluxes can be constructed rests on ref. [20], listed as work in progress. Since this is the paper's answer to the unstabilized radial modulus, it should either be flagged in the text as preliminary or supported by enough detail to be assessed independently.
[References] Reference [39] (Banks, Dixon, Friedan and Martinec) does not appear to be cited anywhere in the body of the manuscript and should either be cited where relevant or removed.
[Section 2.2.4, Eq. (2.43)] The index structure in (2.43) is garbled as printed, with G_{i j} D_i W D_j W mixing barred and unbarred indices; the intended expression should be written with consistent G^{a b-bar} D_a W D_bar_b W notation.

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Warped string compactifications can generate a large scale hierarchy, and the size of that hierarchy is fixed by the integer fluxes threaded through a conifold singularity rather than by continuous moduli.

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The paper asks whether the warped-geometry mechanism for producing a large ratio of physical scales — gravitational redshift in a spacetime whose four-dimensional metric normalization varies across the compact directions — can be realized in an actual string compactification, not just in a phenomenological model or an infinite throat. The authors argue that it can, provided the compact manifold contains a conifold singularity whose collapsing three-cycle carries $M$ units of RR flux and whose dual cycle carries $K$ units of NS flux. The local geometry is then a finite segment of the Klebanov-Strassler solution, the warp factor bottoms out at $z^{1/3}$ with $z$ of order $e^{-2K/(3M g_s)}$ (up to factors of $2$ and $2$), so the hierarchy is a function of integers. The result matters because it gives the Randall-Sundrum style explanation of the weak scale a concrete home inside string theory, and because the same fluxes stabilize the dilaton and the complex structure moduli. What is left unfixed is the overall volume of the compact space, which the authors identify as the main open problem.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the imaginary self-dual three-form flux, $*_6 G_{(3)} = i G_{(3)}$, together with its consequence $e^{4A} = alpha$. Together they convert the ten-dimensional field equations into a single condition on the compactification geometry and let the warp factor be solved for once the flux is chosen. The second piece is the conifold period relation $int_B Omega = (z/2pi i) ln z + text{holomorphic}$, which turns the flux superpotential into a function whose stationary point sits at exponentially small $z$ when $K/M g_s$ is large. The BPS-like bound on localized sources is what licenses the step from the integrated constraint to the self-duality condition, so it carries the derivation.

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Core claim

The central claim is that warped type IIB orientifold compactifications and F-theory compactifications on Calabi-Yau fourfolds exist in which a large hierarchy is produced by redshift and its size is fixed by flux integers. The argument runs through global constraints: integrating the ten-dimensional Einstein equation and the five-form Bianchi identity over the compact space forces the three-form flux to be imaginary self-dual, $*_6 G_{(3)} = i G_{(3)}$, and ties the warp factor to the four-form potential, $e^{4A} = alpha$, provided every localized source satisfies a BPS-like bound $tfrac{1}{4}(T^m{}_m - T^mu{}_mu)_{mathrm{loc}} ge T_3 rho_3^{mathrm{loc}}$. Orientifold three-planes supply the negative tension needed to evade the earlier no-go theorems. Near a conifold the flux superpotential $W = int Omega wedge G_{(3)}$ becomes $(2pi)^2 alpha'(M G(z) - K tau z)$, and the condition $D_z W = 0$ gives $z sim e^{-2pi K/(M g_s)}$, matching the number of Seiberg-duality cascade steps in the dual $SU(N+M) times SU(N)$ gauge theory. The overall radius remains a flat direction, so these are no-scale models, a point the authors state plainly.

Load-bearing premise

The derivation rests on the assumption that every localized source, in particular a general F-theory seven-brane wrapping a four-cycle, saturates the BPS-like bound $tfrac{1}{4}(T^m{}_m - T^mu{}_mu)_{mathrm{loc}} ge T_3 rho_3^{mathrm{loc}}$; the paper infers saturation from unbroken $N=1$ supersymmetry and states that the direct calculation for general wrappings is beyond its scope.

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If this is right

The ratio between the Planck scale and the scale of a confining gauge theory is set by the flux integers $M$ and $K$ and by the string coupling at the singularity, so different topological choices give exponentially different hierarchies.
Because the throat is finite, Kaluza-Klein thresholds can sit at low energies, and scattering at apparently low energy can reach the fundamental Planck scale, which opens a route to probing string-scale physics with relatively low-energy experiments.
The dilaton and all complex structure moduli are fixed by the fluxes, leaving only the overall volume modulus flat at this order.
Calabi-Yau fourfolds with large Euler number allow the product $MK$ to be large, so the construction has room for many distinct flux choices and correspondingly many hierarchy sizes.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

If the hierarchy is set by integers, the model predicts a discrete family of possible hierarchies rather than a continuum, so a scan over flux choices would produce a spread of low-energy scales with no preferred value.
Read in reverse, the compact throat is a geometric dual of a Seiberg-duality cascade, so any observable that the cascade imprints on low-energy couplings would count as a signature of the compact embedding.
Since the overall volume is not stabilized here, the construction cannot by itself predict a cosmological constant; the natural completion is to pair it with a mechanism that fixes the radial modulus.
The BPS-like bound, if it genuinely holds for general wrapped seven-branes with curvature couplings, is a statement of independent interest about brane energetics; a clean counterexample would matter beyond this paper.

Original abstract

Warped compactifications with significant warping provide one of the few known mechanisms for naturally generating large hierarchies of physical scales. We demonstrate that this mechanism is realizable in string theory, and give examples involving orientifold compactifications of IIB string theory and F-theory compactifications on Calabi-Yau four-folds. In each case, the hierarchy of scales is fixed by a choice of RR and NS fluxes in the compact manifold. Our solutions involve compactifications of the Klebanov-Strassler gravity dual to a confining N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory,and the hierarchy reflects the small scale of chiral symmetry breaking in the dual gauge theory.

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Warped compactifications with significant warping provide one of the few known mechanisms for naturally generating large hierarchies of physical scales. We demonstrate that this mechanism is realizable in string theory, and give examples involving orientifold compactifications of IIB string theory and F-theory compactifications on Calabi-Yau four-folds. In each case, the hierarchy of scales is fixed by a choice of RR and NS fluxes in the compact manifold. Our solutions involve compactifications of the Klebanov-Strassler gravity dual to a confining N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory,and the hierarchy reflects the small scale of chiral symmetry breaking in the dual gauge theory.

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hep-th 2020-05 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

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hep-th 2008-08 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

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hep-th 2008-03 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

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hep-th 2007-06 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

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D6-branes and torsion
hep-th 2006-03 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

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On Tunnelling In Two-Throat Warped Reheating
hep-th 2006-02 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

The self-consistent decay rate for KK modes transferring energy between two warped throats equals the standard plane-wave tunnelling rate, and the rate can be enhanced by modifying the UV geometry.
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hep-th 2006-02 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

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A clean supergravity no-go theorem forbids supersymmetric moduli stabilization with a flat QCD axion, and a large-volume construction gives f_a approximately the geometric mean of the Planck and SUSY-breaking scales.
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A T-duality invariant superpotential for type II torus compactifications is constructed that includes nongeometric Q and R fluxes alongside H-flux and geometric flux, making the IIA and IIB vacuum distributions identical.
Dynamics of warped compactifications and the shape of the warped landscape
hep-th 2005-07 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

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Fluxes, moduli fixing and MSSM-like vacua in a simple IIA orientifold
hep-th 2005-06 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

Adding RR, NS and metric fluxes to a T^6/(Omega(-1)^F_L I_3) Type IIA orientifold stabilizes all closed-string moduli in supersymmetric AdS vacua, and one such vacuum hosts a three-generation MSSM-like intersecting D6...
Soft Supersymmetry Breaking in KKLT Flux Compactification
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Distributions of nonsupersymmetric flux vacua
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Landscape, the Scale of SUSY Breaking, and Inflation
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The dS/dS Correspondence
hep-th 2004-07 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

De Sitter space in d dimensions is proposed to be dual to two cut-off conformal field theories on de Sitter space in d-1 dimensions, coupled to each other and to (d-1)-dimensional gravity.
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hep-th 2004-04 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

Explicit Calabi-Yau orientifold compactifications are exhibited in which D3-instanton and gaugino-condensation effects stabilize every Kähler modulus, together with a no-go argument that rules out the one-modulus case.
Distributions of flux vacua
hep-th 2004-04 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

Flux vacua in IIb Calabi-Yau compactification follow a computable density built from special geometry, strongly enhanced near conifold points, with a cosmological constant distribution that is uniform near zero.
Scalar Speed Limits and Cosmology: Acceleration from D-cceleration
hep-th 2003-10 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

Causality in the dual AdS geometry imposes a speed limit on the N=4 SYM scalar moduli, and coupling that DBI-corrected field theory to gravity yields power-law inflation from an ordinary quadratic potential at subPlan...
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hep-th 2002-11 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

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Mirror Symmetry in Generalized Calabi-Yau Compactifications
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Type IIB on a Calabi-Yau threefold with electric NS three-form flux is mirror to type IIA on a half-flat SU(3)-structure manifold, and the two four-dimensional effective actions agree.
Classical Black Hole Production in High-Energy Collisions
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A dataset of 1,296,633 reliable flux vacua (127,241 supersymmetric) is produced and used to train classifiers and regressors that predict vacuum properties from flux invariants.
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The paper proves, from massive spin-2 scattering sum rules, that the lightest KK graviton must couple to a scalar with (m_sc/m_1)^2 ≤ 4/3, and every KK graviton m_n to a scalar with (m_sc/m_n)^2 < 36/25.
Flux Vacua Near the Boundary of Large Complex Structure
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Near the boundary of large complex structure, the first worldsheet instanton can displace flux vacua significantly while higher instantons stay negligible, and such vacua are common in a bounded two-modulus scan.
Calabi-Yau Orientifold Hypersurfaces and their F-theory Uplifts
hep-th 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

An algorithm builds Calabi-Yau orientifolds and F-theory fourfold uplifts from 6d reflexive polytopes derived from orientifold data, with code in CYTools and GitHub.
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Surviving inflationary histories develop a universal inward drift near any hard swampland boundary — two times the diffusion over the distance to the edge — regardless of the cutoff's microscopic origin.
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Even an arbitrarily small-weight issue can destabilize stable opinion states and massively slow convergence; concentrating importance on few issues raises polarization, while spreading it promotes pluralism.
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Generalized this paper's setup slightly by allowing for a maximally symmetric spacetime.

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Presented its result as a straightforward generalization of this paper's equation, allowing a maximally symmetric four-dimensional metric where this paper required flat space.

D3-brane Potentials from Fluxes in AdS/CFT (2010) (same authors) · 0.94 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
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Our analysis follows the Giddings-Kachru-Polchinski (GKP) approach [ref] to flux compactification on $M_4 ×X_6$ spacetimes, involving a conic Calabi-Yau orientifold $X_6$ with an attached warped deformed conifold throat $_6$ [ref] .

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Found that in its Type IIA setup the tadpole cancellation condition does not bound fluxes, contrary to the Type IIB flux vacua studied in this paper.

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The Einstein equations and the Bianchi identity for the five-form then imply[This corrects the corresponding equation in [ref] by a numerical factor.]

Holographic Systematics of D-brane Inflation · D3-brane Potential in Type IIB Supergravity · contest 0.93
Substituting ([ref]) into ([ref]) and combining with ([ref]), we get[This corrects the numerical factor appearing in [ref] , cf. [ref] .] [equation] where $⋆_6$ is the six-dimensional Hodge star and $Q_loc ≡T_3 ρ_3^loc$.

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The classical flux compactifications of [ref] do not yield realistic effective theories, because the unstabilized Kähler moduli encode instabilities, and are sharply constrained by fifth-force tests and by cosmological limits on moduli.

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The first purpose of this paper is to deepen the relation between supersymmetric flux compactifications and multicenter solutions found in [ref] , and to show that this relation extends to non-supersymmetric solutions: some of the non-supersymmetric IIB and M-theory flux compactifications of [ref] can be reinterpreted as almost-BPS multicenter solutions [ref] , while some others give new solutions that lie outside of the almost-BPS class and in general have more dipole charges.

Black Holes and Fourfolds · Introduction · 0.97
In this Letter, we have characterized a broad class of Minkowski flux vacua with parallel localized $O_p/D_p$ sources; this is achieved thanks to the general rewriting [ref] of the 4d Ricci scalar as a negative sum of squares, extending a well-known result for $O_3$-planes [ref] to general $O_p$ reductions.

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We take as our base $B$[We are inspired by seeking the simplest possible modification of the compact embedding of the conifold discussed in 4 of [ref] .

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By using the Hamiltonian method, developed for warped compactifications in [ref] , we have computed the kinetic term and Kähler potential for the universal volume modulus and its axionic partner in IIB flux compactifications of the type studied in [ref] for arbitrary warping.

The Universal Kaehler Modulus in Warped Compactifications · Discussion and implications · 0.93
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This hierarchy was calculated in [ref] and is ^2(A_tip-A_bulk) ∼z^2/3 ∼(M g_s)^-1^-4πK3 M g_s , where $K$ is the number of units of $H_3$ that must have legs along the $r̃$ and $S^2$ directions perpendicular to the $S^3$ such that the imaginary self-dual (ISD) condition [ref] is satisfied.

Is inflation from unwinding fluxes IIB? · The Klebanov-Strassler throat and its S-dual · 0.93
The approximation ([ref]) is not accurate enough to determine the warp factor at the bottom of the throat; its value is [ref] h_0 = a_0 (g_s M α')^2 2^2/3 ε^-8/3 , a_0 ≈0.71805 , which is approximately $h_0 ≈e^8πK/3g_s M$ [ref] .

Towards an Explicit Model of D-brane Inflation · The compactification · 0.93
where $2κ_10^2 = (2π)^7(α')^4$ [ref] .

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The point we would like to stress is that equation (2.30) of [ref] — which has been the basis of a number of constraints on compact solutions — and the master equation [ref] contain equivalent information, provided that one correctly accounts for the breathing mode as in [ref].

de Sitter Vacua from Ten Dimensions · Ten-dimensional Equations of Motion · 0.90
To summarize, the background solution we found is given by [equation] [equation] Note that the form of the solution has a similar feature as the supergravity solution of [ref] .

String perturbation theory of Klebanov-Strassler throat · Closed-string second order background solution · 0.99
The Ansatz for the $F_8-p$ field strength is [equation] For $p=3$, we have to add the Hodge dual, and this coincides exactly with the Ansatz of GKP [ref] .

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This was shown respectively in [ref] , [ref] and [ref].

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It is known that one can evade the Maldacena-Nunez theorem taking into account higher-order curvature corrections and negative tension O-planes [ref] , as stressed in [ref] .

The landscape, the swampland and the era of precision cosmology · Discussion and conclusions · 0.98
Eliminating $Y$ from this superpotential in a supersymmetric way gives rise to the required warp factor multiplying $X$ in $W$ [ref] .

RG-Induced Modulus Stabilization: Perturbative de Sitter Vacua and Improved $\hbox{D3}$-$\overline{\hbox{D3}}$ Inflation · Antibrane tension from the nilpotent superfield · 0.98

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This can be accomplished by embedding into the Calabi-Yau an incarnation of the Randall-Sundrum model [ref] , in which branes at one end of an (approximate) AdS$_5$ throat are exponentially redshifted relative to those at the other end.[This AdS$_5$ throat is not to be confused with the supersymmetric AdS$_4$ vacuum.] The string theory geometry that reproduces the Randall-Sundrum model in this context is called a Klebanov-Strassler throat [ref] , and arises in Calabi-Yau compactifications that contain a type of singular point called a conifold singularity, threaded by three-form fluxes [ref] .

Candidate de Sitter Vacua · Background on the KKLT scenario · 0.96
One important feature of KKLT-type compactification [ref] is the presence of warped throat which is produced by 3-form fluxes [ref] .

SUSY Breaking at the Tip of Throat and Mirage Mediation · 4D effective action of KKLT-type compactification · 0.89
Recall that in the KKLT construction [ref] , which was inspired by various results in Type IIB string theory flux compactifications (see e.g. [ref] ), four-dimensional $𝒩=1$ supersymmetry is broken by anti-branes located at the tip of the warped throat geometry produced by three-form fluxes, while the observable sector arises from stacks of D branes located in the bulk Calabi-Yau space, as shown schematically in Figure [ref].

Moduli Stabilization and Supersymmetry Breaking in Deflected Mirage Mediation · Moduli Stabilization and Supersymmetry Breaking · 0.99

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