A bstract We perform a detailed study of (supersymmetric) moduli stabilisation in type IIB toroidal orientifolds with fluxes. We provide strong evidence towards exhaustion of the finite number of inequivalent vacua for a given total 3-form flux charge N flux . We also find that the minimal value of the string coupling g s is given in terms of N flux and present strong evidence for the asymptotic relation g s , min ∼ c/Nfluxα c / N flux α , with α = 1, 2, valid for not too small N flux , where c is an order 1 coefficient and α depends on the orbifold. Imposing tadpole cancellation, N flux is bounded from the number of orientifold O3-planes. Combined with the flux quantisation, this forbids orientifold vacua without anti-brane charge. On the other hand, the presence of negative D3-brane charge induced by magnetised D7-branes breaks supersymmetry and relaxes the bound, allowing significantly smaller values for g s .
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Antoniadis et al. (2024) studied this question.