Type IIB flux compactifications with h1,1=0

We revisit flux compactifications of type IIB string theory on 'spaces' dual to rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds. This rather unexplored part of the string landscapes harbors many interesting four-dimensional solutions, namely supersymmetric N = 1 Minkowski vacua without flat direction and infinite families of AdS vacua, some potentially with unrestricted rank for the gauge group. We also comment on the existence of metastable dS solutions in this setup. We discuss how these solutions fit into the web of swampland conjectures.

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This article revisits flux compactifications of type IIB string theory on rigid Calabi-Yau manifolds. This relatively unexplored part of the string landscape contains many interesting four-dimensional solutions, and discusses how these solutions fit into the swampland conjectures.