Title: Hodge theory and a minimal structure for the flux landscape

Speaker: Thomas Grimm (Utrecht)

Time: 15:00-15:35 (GMT+0), 2021.08.09

Abstract:

In the first part of the talk I will discuss some recent insights about the structure of the complex structure moduli space, period integrals, and moduli stabilization. I will then argue that a long conjectured and very non-trivial finiteness result about the flux vacua has now been proved. This will lead me to suggest that requiring ‘finiteness properties’ can be key to uncover the structure of the string theory landscape in general. I will briefly introduce a tame topology that defines a general minimal structure with manifest finiteness properties.