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Defects, Decay, And Dissipated States

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Vacuum selection is one of the most important issues in string/M theory. The standard cartoon of string vacua (see figure 1) showing all the ten dimensional perturbative string asymptopia together with the eleven-dimensional limit, refers to solutions with a large number of supersymmetries, and flat directions (moduli) in the effective action.

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Martinec, E.J. (2003). Defects, Decay, And Dissipated States. In: Baulieu, L., Rabinovici, E., Harvey, J., Pioline, B., Windey, P. (eds) Progress in String, Field and Particle Theory. NATO Science Series, vol 104. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0211-0_6

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