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We consider various string-loop, warping and curvature corrections that are expected to appear in type IIB moduli stabilisation scenarios. It has recently been argued, in the context of strongly-warped LVS de Sitter vacua, that it is impossible to achieve parametric suppression in all of these corrections simultaneously [1]. We investigate corrections in the context of the recently discovered weakly-warped LVS de Sitter vacua, which represent a distinct branch of solutions in type IIB flux compactifications. The weakly-warped solution is supported by small conifold flux numbers MK ≲ 32, but still requires a large flux contribution to the D3-tadpole, now from the bulk. Warping corrections become less problematic, and some corrections even help to reach the weakly-warped regime of parameter space. Other corrections continue to be dangerous and would require numerical coefficients to be computed — and found to be small — in order not to destroy the consistency of the weakly-warped LVS de Sitter solution. We motivate why this may be possible.
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We are grateful to Ignatios Antoniadis, Michele Cicoli, Arthur Hebecker, Daniel Junghans, Severin Lüst, Erik Plauschinn, Simon Schreyer and Gerben Venken for discussions. IZ is partially supported by STFC, grant ST/T000813/1.
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Bento, B.V., Chakraborty, D., Parameswaran, S. et al. De Sitter vacua — when are ‘subleading corrections’ really subleading?. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 75 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2023)075
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