The statistics of string/M theory vacua

We discuss systematic approaches to the classification of string/M theory vacua, and physical questions this might help us resolve. To this end, we initiate the study of ensembles of effective Lagrangians, which can be used to precisely study the predictive power of string theory, and in simple examples can lead to universality results. Using these ideas, we outline an approach to estimating the number of vacua of string/M theory which can realize the Standard Model.

• Publication year

  2003

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  Journal of High Energy Physics

• Publication date

  2003-03-21

• Fields of study

  Physics

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  DOI 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/05/046arXiv hep-th/0303194
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