Probably Approximately Correct String Theory: A Verification Discipline for the Landscape

The string landscape contains ~10^500 vacua, so 'unified string theory' is two conflated problems — verification and selection. We build a verification discipline for the first: a probably-approximately-correct certificate, a proof that search over the flux superpotential is not evolvable (Denef-Douglas uniformity + Valiant's contrapositive), a measured log-uniform prior for |W_0|, a certified Mitchell Verification Deficit, and a boundary map of the four senses in which the problem is uncomputable. The field currently has no verification layer for its unverifiable theory; this is one.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-11-06
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24002963
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Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Probably Approximately Correct String Theory: A Verification Discipline for the Landscape

Rob Mitchell
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Probably Approximately Correct String Theory: A Verification Discipline for the Landscape

Rob Mitchell
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Abstract

The string landscape contains ~10^500 vacua, so 'unified string theory' is two conflated problems — verification and selection. We build a verification discipline for the first: a probably-approximately-correct certificate, a proof that search over the flux superpotential is not evolvable (Denef-Douglas uniformity + Valiant's contrapositive), a measured log-uniform prior for |W_0|, a certified Mitchell Verification Deficit, and a boundary map of the four senses in which the problem is uncomputable. The field currently has no verification layer for its unverifiable theory; this is one.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Probably Approximately Correct String Theory: A Verification Discipline for the Landscape — Rob Mitchell · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS