Moduli stabilization, large-volume dS minimum without D3¯-branes, (non-)supersymmetric black hole attractors and two-parameter Swiss cheese Calabi–Yau's

Abstract We consider two sets of issues in this paper. The first has to do with moduli stabilization, existence of “area codes” [A. Giryavets, New attractors and area codes, JHEP 0603 (2006) 020, hep-th/0511215 ] and the possibility of getting a non-supersymmetric dS minimum without the addition of D 3 ¯ -branes as in KKLT for type II flux compactifications. The second has to do with the “inverse problem” [K. Saraikin, C. Vafa, Non-supersymmetric black holes and topological strings, hep-th/0703214 ] and “fake superpotentials” [A. Ceresole, G. Dall'Agata, Flow equations for non-BPS extremal black holes, JHEP 0703 (2007) 110, hep-th/0702088 ] for extremal (non-)supersymmetric black holes in type II compactifications. We use (orientifold of) a “Swiss cheese” Calabi–Yau [J.P. Conlon, F. Quevedo, K. Suruliz, Large-volume flux compactifications: Moduli spectrum and D3/D7 soft supersymmetry breaking, JHEP 0508 (2005) 007, hep-th/0505076 ] expressed as a degree-18 hypersurface in WCP 4 [ 1 , 1 , 1 , 6 , 9 ] in the “large-volume-scenario” limit [V. Balasubramanian, P. Berglund, J.P. Conlon, F. Quevedo, Systematics of moduli stabilisation in Calabi–Yau flux compactifications, JHEP 0503 (2005) 007, hep-th/0502058 ]. The main result of our paper is that we show that by including non-perturbative α ′ and instanton corrections in the Kahler potential and superpotential [T.W. Grimm, Non-perturbative corrections and modularity in N = 1 type IIB compactifications, arXiv: 0705.3253 [hep-th] ], it may be possible to obtain a large-volume non-supersymmetric dS minimum without the addition of anti-D3 branes a la KKLT. The chosen Calabi–Yau has been of relevance also from the point of other studies of Kahler moduli stabilization via non-perturbative instanton contributions [F. Denef, M.R. Douglas, B. Florea, Building a better racetrack, JHEP 0406 (2004) 034, hep-th/0404257 ] and non-supersymmetric AdS vacua (and their subsequent dS-uplifts) using ( α ′ ) 3 corrections to the Kahler potential [V. Balasubramanian, P. Berglund, J.P. Conlon, F. Quevedo, Systematics of moduli stabilisation in Calabi–Yau flux compactifications, JHEP 0503 (2005) 007, hep-th/0502058 ; K. Becker, M. Becker, M. Haack, J. Louis, Supersymmetry breaking and alpha'-corrections to flux induced potentials, JHEP 0206 (2002) 060, hep-th/0204254 ; A. Westphal, de Sitter string vacua from Kahler uplifting, JHEP 0703 (2007) 102, hep-th/0611332 ; V. Balasubramanian, P. Berglund, Stringy corrections to Kahler potentials, SUSY breaking, and the cosmological constant problem, JHEP 0411 (2004) 085, hep-th/0408054 ].