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We report on some recent work with M. R. Douglas and B. Shiffman on vacuum statistics for flux compactifications in string/M theory.
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Zelditch, S. (2006). Counting String/M Vacua. In: Asch, J., Joye, A. (eds) Mathematical Physics of Quantum Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 690. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34273-7_33
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