Effective potentials, warping, and implications for F-term uplifting

A bstract We analyse warping corrections to the scalar potential in flux compactifications of Type IIB string theory, focusing on their effect on F -term de Sitter uplifting in Calabi-Yau orientifold models. A systematic inverse-volume expansion allows us to derive the four-dimensional off-shell potential in the presence of warping and non-ISD 3-form fluxes. This corresponds to integrating out all massive Kaluza-Klein modes using the ten-dimensional equations of motion. We further propose a warped Kähler potential in four-dimensional 𝒩 = 1 supergravity, and show that it is consistent with our ten-dimensional results. In the KKLT framework, we find that classical warping corrections, as well as mixed corrections involving non-ISD fluxes and quantum effects, are dominant, rendering the scenario effectively uncontrollable with current methods. By contrast, in LVS-like constructions these corrections are suppressed by inverse powers of the volume, specifically 𝒱 1 / 2 or 𝒱 1 / 6 , depending on the concrete model.