Unstoppable brane-flux decay of D6 branes

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2017)141MaRDI QIDQ1693008zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Fridrik Freyr Gautason, Ulf H. Danielsson, Thomas Van Riet

Publication date 10 January 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.06529

zbMATH Keywords

D-branesflux compactificationsspacetime singularitiessupersymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: We investigate $p$ $overlineextD6$ branes inside a flux throat that carries $KimesM$ D6 charges with $K$ the 3-form flux quantum and $M$ the Romans mass. We find that within the calculable supergravity regime where $g_{s}p$ is large, the $overlineextD6$ branes annihilate immediately against the fluxes despite the existence of a metastable state at small $p/M$ in the probe approximation. The crucial property that causes this naive conflict with effective field theory is a singularity in the 3-form flux, which we cut off at string scale. Our result explains the absence of regular solutions at finite temperature and suggests there should be a smooth time-dependent solution. We also discuss the qualitative differences between $overlineextD6$ branes and $overlineextD3$ branes, which makes it a priori not obvious to conclude the same instability for $overlineextD3$ branes.

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