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What if string theory has no de Sitter vacua?
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We present a brief overview of attempts to construct de Sitter vacua in string theory and explain how the results of this 20-year endeavor could point to the fact that string theory harbors no de Sitter vacua at all. Making such a statement is often considered controversial and “bad news for string theory”. We discuss how perhaps the opposite can be true.
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- Authors
- Danielsson, U. H., & Riet, T. V.
- Venue
- International Journal of Modern Physics D
- Publisher
- World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd
- Published
- 2018-09
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1830007
- ISSN
- 0218-2718 (ISSN-L)
- 1793-6594
- OpenAlex
- W2795680590
- Cited by
- 345
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 26.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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