This tag applies to questions which deal with investigations of the string-theory landscape (defined as the space of solutions to the dynamical equations of string-theory) by physical, mathematical, or statistical methods.

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Could all strings be one single string which weaves the fabric of the universe?

This question popped out of another discussion, about if the photon needs a receiver to exist. Can a photon get emitted without a receiver? A universe containing only one electron was hypothetically ...
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Does a complete theory of quantum gravity require anthropic post-selection?

Does a complete theory of quantum gravity require anthropic post-selection? Certainly the black hole complimentarity and causal patch conjectures highlights the essential role of observers, at least ...
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String landscape in different dimensions

For D = 11 large (uncompactified) spacetime dimensions, the only "string theory" vacuum is M-theory For D = 10, there are 5 vacua. Or maybe it's more correct to say 4, since type I is S-dual to ...
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Does the ensemble of effective Lagrangians in the String theory landscape mostly include gauge theories?

String theory false vacua can be described by effective Lagrangians at low energy. Is there generally a correspondence between these effective Lagrangians and SU(N) gauge theories? Or do the effective ...
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P-adic Numbers and Eternal Inflation

In October(??) 2011, Leonard Susskind gave a talk and with few other people wrote papers about p-adic numbers and measure problems in cosmology, see e.g. arXiv:1110.0496. Has there been any recent ...