Constraint-first string theory: the flux landscape's only exact structure is its constraint
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We measure, on real supersymmetric flux vacua, which low-energy observables carry information about the flux that produced them. The result is a structure map: the string coupling, gauge couplings, mass-spectrum shape, axions, dilaton and cosmological constant are statistically uniform in flux; exactly one quantity is exactly structured — the D3 tadpole, the symplectic pairing N_flux = F^T J H (r = 1.0). The landscape's only exact structure is what it forbids, not what it selects.
Author: Mitchell, Rob
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225432275