Rigid Stabilization in Non-geometric Phases
Dr. Katrin Becker
Texas A&M University

      Type II orientifolds based on Landau-Ginzburg models are used to describe moduli stabilization for flux compactifications of type II theories from the world-sheet CFT point of view. We show that for certain type of type IIB orientifolds which have no K\"ahler moduli and are therefore intrinsically non-geometric, all moduli can be stabilized in terms of fluxes. The resulting four-dimensional theories can describe Minkowski as well as Anti-de-Sitter vacua.