Effects of fluxes in string compactifications

Projektinformationen

STRING FLUXES

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 501485

Startdatum 1 Januar 2004

Enddatum 31 Dezember 2005

Finanziert unter

• Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Gesamtkosten € 150 281,00

EU-Beitrag € 150 281,00

Koordiniert durch

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
France

Ziel

The research topic of this proposal is String Theory compactifications and the emergence of Einstein gravity and the Standard Model in the low-energy limit. The specific aspect we will address is the possibility to ton on non-zero fluxes on the compact manifold. Fluxes have the following interesting and not fully explored features: they fix some of the continuous parameters of the vacuum (module), they can induce super symmetry breaking, and they allow for a non-trivial warp factor which may account for the hierarchy between the Planck and the electro weak scales. The research objectives are:
(i) find general conditions for the existence of supersyrnmetric solutions with given fluxes,
(ii) study the resulting potential for the module,
(iii) derive the effective theory on intersecting D-brines carrying the Standard Model fields, in a flux background, and
(iv) study implications for super symmetry breaking and the vacuum stability. The theoretical tools employed are those of quantum field theory, general relativity, and certain branches of modern mathematics. Specifically methods from gauged super gravity, boundary conformal field theory and D- brines, string dualities and the Ads/CFT correspondence, and the recently developed techniques of matrix models will be used. The young researcher will benefit from the presence of experts on these topics in the host laboratory. The proposed research can create synergies among different branches of physics and of mathematics, and could be relevant to the future experimental activities in particle physics (especially at the European Large Hadrons Collier in CERN) and in cosmology.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• natural sciences › physical sciences › relativistic mechanics
• natural sciences › physical sciences › theoretical physics › particle physics
• natural sciences › physical sciences › quantum physics › quantum field theory
• natural sciences › physical sciences › theoretical physics › string theory
• natural sciences › mathematics › applied mathematics › mathematical physics › conformal field theory

Schlüsselbegriffe

• STRING THEORY
• string theory

Programm/Programme

• FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Thema/Themen

• MOBILITY-2.1 - Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships (EIF)

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

FP6-2002-MOBILITY-5
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Finanzierungsplan

EIF - Marie Curie actions-Intra-European Fellowships

Koordinator

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE

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