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We determine all flux vacua with flux numbers Nflux ≤ 10 for a type IIB orientifold-compactification on the mirror-octic three-fold. To achieve this, we develop and apply techniques for performing a complete scan of flux vacua for the whole moduli space — we do not randomly sample fluxes nor do we consider only boundary regions of the moduli space. We compare our findings to results in the literature.
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Acknowledgments
We thank Brice Bastian, Thomas Grimm, Damian van de Heisteeg, Sven Krippendorf, Jeroen Monnee, Jakob Moritz, Andreas Schachner, and Mick van Vliet for very helpful discussions. We furthermore thank Elisa Chisari for help with setting-up the cluster computations at Utrecht University. The work of EP is supported by a Heisenberg grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) with project-number 430285316. The work of LS is supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) through a Vici grant.
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Plauschinn, E., Schlechter, L. Flux vacua of the mirror octic. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 157 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2024)157
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