The Fall of Stringy de Sitter
arXiv:hep-th/0305018 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.68.046008
Abstract
Kachru, Kallosh, Linde, & Trivedi recently constructed a four-dimensional de Sitter compactification of IIB string theory, which they showed to be metastable in agreement with general arguments about de Sitter spacetimes in quantum gravity. In this paper, we describe how discrete flux choices lead to a closely-spaced set of vacua and explore various decay channels. We find that in many situations NS5-brane meditated decays which exchange NSNS 3-form flux for D3-branes are comparatively very fast.
35 pp (11 pp appendices), 5 figures, v3. fixed minor typos