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We show that string/M theory compactifications to maximally symmetric space-times using manifolds whose scalar curvature is everywhere negative, must have significant warping, large stringy corrections, or both.
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Douglas, M.R., Kallosh, R. Compactification on negatively curved manifolds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 4 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2010)004
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