Theory Group, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), München



Priv.-Doz.  Dr.  Ralph Blumenhagen

ralphSenior researcher, research group leader



Red Ball Personalities

  • 1994 PhD at the University of Bonn
  • 1994-1996 Post-Doc at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
  • 1996-1998 Post-Doc at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
  • 1998-2003 Post-Doc (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 2001 Habilitation at Humboldt-Universität
  • 2003-2004 PPARC Advanced Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2004 Permanent Staff Member at the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • since 2007 Privatdozent at the LMU Munich


Red Ball Recent Research interests
  • Superstring Theory
  • String model building: heterotic strings, D-brane models, M- and F-theory vacua
  • Flux compactifications: moduli stabilization, string cosmology
  • String phenomenology: low energy effective actions, D-brane instantons, swampland conjecures
  • Non-geometric string backgrounds: double field theory, non-commutative geometry


Red Ball More information



Red Ball Reference implementation for computation of line bundle cohomology of toric varieties


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Red Ball List of asymmetric simple current models (additum to arXiv:1611.04617)




Red Ball Books
              
 
  • Errata for the book "Introduction to Conformal Field Theory", Lecture Notes in Physics 779, Springer                                                                                                                                                      
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Red Ball  Recent PhD theses in my group
    -  "Swampland conjectures as generic predictions of quantum gravity",  Daniel Klaewer, 2019

    -  "Towards underlying quantum gravity constraints on string inflation",  Florian Wolf, 2018

    -  "Target spaces of non-geometric string backgrounds",  Michael Fuchs, 2017

    -  "Large field inflation and moduli stabilisation in type IIB string theory",  Daniela Herschmann, 2017
   
    -  "Duality, non-geometry and its phenomenology",  Rui Sun, 2016

    -  "Line-bundle cohomology, phenomenological aspects of geometric flux compactifications",  Xin Gao, 2014

    -  "O(d,d) target-space duality in string theory",  Felix Rennecke, 2014

    -  "Lie algebroids, non-associative structures and non-geometric fluxes",  Andreas Deser, 2013

    -  "Heterotic target space dualities with line bundle cohomology",  Thorsten Rahn, 2012

    -  "Non-perturbative type IIB model building in the F-theory framework",  Benjamin Jurke, 2010

    -  "Applications of the D-instanton calculus in type IIB orientifold compactifications",  Sebastian Moster, 2010

    -  "Type IIB orientifolds, D-brane instantons and the large volume scenario",  Erik Plauschinn, 2009

    -  "One-loop and D-instanton corrections to the effective action of open string models",  Maximilian Schmidt-Sommerfeld, 2009

    -  "D-instanton and effective couplings in intersecting D-brane models",  Nikolas Akerblom, 2008

    -  "Compactifications of the heterotic string with unitary bundles",  Timo Weigand, 2006





Red Ball  Recent Master and Diploma theses in my group
    -  "String vacua and the swampland",  Andriana Makridou, 2020
 
    -  "The L-infinity bootstrap: aspects of uniqueness",  Max Brinkmann, 2018
 
    -  "The refined swampland distance conjecture in Calabi-Yau moduli spaces",  Lorenz Schlechter, 2018
 
    -  "L-infinity algebras in extended symmetries of two dimensional conformal field theory",  Matthias Traube, 2018
 
    -  "Two-loop gauge unification in intersecting D7-brane models with left-right symmetry",  Yigit Yargic, 2016
 
    -  "Type IIB Calabi-Yau orientifolds, non-geometric fluxes and moduli stabilization",  Yuta Sekiguchi, 2016

    -  "Flux-scaling scenarios for moduli stabilization in string theory and axion monodromy inflation",  Florian Wolf, 2015

    -  "Non-associative deformations of geometry in double field theory",  Michael Fuchs, 2014

    -  "Lie algebroids and non-geometry in string theory",  Christian Schmid, 2014

    -  "String compactifications with non-geometric fluxes",  Daniela Herschmann, 2013
 
    -  "Strings in background fields and nonassociative geometry",  Felix Rennecke, 2011

    -  "D-brane instantons and flavour physics",  Andreas Deser, 2010

    -  "Semi-realistic string vacua from simply connected Calabi-Yau manifolds with non-flat line bundles",  Sebastian Moster, 2006

    -  "Intersecting D-brane models on shift Z_2 x Z_2 orientifolds",  Erik Plauschinn, 2006





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