Theorie-Palaver
June 12, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. in Sozialraum der WA THEPUpalaparna Banerjee
Federico Gasparotto
Pouria Mazloumi
Yong Xu
Constructing explicit and well-controlled string compactifications with a positive cosmological constant in four dimensions is a surprisingly difficult problem. This is illustrated by a summary of recent attempts to find such de Sitter vacua at the classical level and under the inclusion of the best understood perturbative corrections.