Remarks on the Racetrack Scheme

Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 046005 There are only a small number of ideas for stabilizing the moduli of string theory. One of the most appealing of these is the racetrack mechanism, in which a delicate interplay between two strongly interacting gauge groups fixes the value of the coupling constant. In this...

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Main Authors Dine, Michael, Shirman, Yuri
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 30.06.1999
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Physics - High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Physics - High Energy Physics - Theory
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Summary:Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 046005 There are only a small number of ideas for stabilizing the moduli of string theory. One of the most appealing of these is the racetrack mechanism, in which a delicate interplay between two strongly interacting gauge groups fixes the value of the coupling constant. In this note, we explore this scenario. We find that quite generally, some number of discrete tunings are required in order that the mechanism yield a small gauge coupling. Even then, there is no sense in which a weak coupling approximation is valid. On the other hand, certain holomorphic quantities can be computed, so such a scheme is in principle predictive. Searching for models which realize this mechanism is thus of great interest. We also remark on cosmology in these schemes.
Bibliography:SCIPP-92/23, PUPT-1875
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9906246