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No-scale supergravity is the appropriate general framework for low-energy effective field theories derived from string theory. The simplest no-scale Kähler potential with a single chiral field corresponds to a compactification to flat Minkowski space with a single volume modulus, but generalizations to single-field no-scale models with de Sitter vacua are also known. In this paper we generalize these de Sitter constructions to two- and multi-field models of the types occurring in string compactifications with more than one relevant modulus. We discuss the conditions for stability of the de Sitter solutions and holomorphy of the superpotential, and give examples whose superpotential contains only integer powers of the chiral fields.
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Ellis, J., Nagaraj, B., Nanopoulos, D.V. et al. De Sitter vacua in no-scale supergravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 110 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2018)110
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