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Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications

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In this article, the authors show that the hierarchy of scales can be fixed by a choice of Ramond-Ramond and Neveu-Schwarz fluxes in the compact manifold, and give examples involving orientifold compactifications of type IIB string theory and F-theory compactifications on Calabi-Yau fourfolds.
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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 type-IIB string theory and F-theory compactifications on Calabi-Yau fourfolds. In each case, the hierarchy of scales is fixed by a choice of Ramond-Ramond and Neveu-Schwarz fluxes in the compact manifold. Our solutions involve compactifications of the Klebanov-Strassler gravity dual to a confining $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric gauge theory, and the hierarchy reflects the small scale of chiral symmetry breaking in the dual gauge theory.

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Generalized flux vacua

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Realistic D-Brane Models on Warped Throats: Fluxes, Hierarchies and Moduli Stabilization

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe string theory models with semirealistic spectrum in a sector of (anti) D3-branes located at an orbifold singularity at the bottom of a highly warped throat geometry, which is a generalisation of the Klebanov-Strassler deformed conifold.
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D-branes at del Pezzo singularities: global embedding and moduli stabilisation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine moduli stabilisation and model building on branes at del Pezzo singularities in a fully consistent global compactification of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
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Moduli Stabilisation versus Chirality for MSSM like Type IIB Orientifolds

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