Yoske Sumitomo, S. -H. Henry Tye
Based on the properties of probability distributions of functions of random variables, we proposed earlier a simple stringy mechanism that prefers the meta-stable vacua with a small cosmological constant \Lambda. As an illustration of this approach, we study in this paper particularly simple but non-trivial models of the K\"ahler uplift in the large volume flux compactification scenario in Type IIB string theory, where all parameters introduced in the model are treated either as fixed constants motivated by physics, or as random variables with some given probability distributions. We determine the value w_0 of the superpotential W_0 at the supersymmetric minima, and find that the resulting probability distribution P(w_0) peaks at w_0=0; furthermore, this peaking behavior strengthens as the number of complex structure moduli increases. The resulting probability distribution P(\Lambda) for meta-stable vacua also peaks as \Lambda -> 0, for both positive and negative \Lambda. This peaking/divergent behavior of P(\Lambda) strengthens as the number of moduli increases. In some scenarios for \Lambda > 0, its expectation value < \Lambda > decreases as the number of moduli increases. The light cosmological moduli problem accompanying a very small \Lambda is also discussed.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5086
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