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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
Volume 23, Issue 21, Pages S883-S926Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/23/21/S02
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Following the lectures given at CERN Winter School 2006, we present a pedagogical overview of flux compactifications and generalized geometries, concentrating on closed string fluxes in type II theories. We start by reviewing the supersymmetric flux configurations with maximally symmetric four-dimensional spaces. We then discuss the no-go theorems (and their evasion) for compactifications with fluxes. We analyse the resulting four-dimensional effective theories for Calabi-Yau and Calabi-Yau orientifold compactifications, concentrating on the flux-induced superpotentials. We discuss the generic mechanism of moduli stabilization and illustrate with two examples: the conifold in IIB and a T-6/(Z(3) x Z(3)) torus in IIA. We finish by studying the effective action and flux vacua for generalized geometries in the context of generalized complex geometry.
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