Resolving spacetime singularities in flux compactifications \& KKLT

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2021)093MaRDI QIDQ1980646zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Federico Carta, Jakob Moritz

Publication date 8 September 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05281

zbMATH Keywords

brane dynamics in gauge theoriesflux compactificationsstring dualitysuperstring vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: In flux compactifications of type IIB string theory with D3 and seven-branes, the negative induced D3 charge localized on seven-branes leads to an apparently pathological profile of the metric sufficiently close to the source. With the volume modulus stabilized in a KKLT de Sitter vacuum this pathological region takes over a significant part of the entire compactification, threatening to spoil the KKLT effective field theory. In this paper we employ the Seiberg-Witten solution of pure $SU(N)$ super Yang-Mills theory to argue that wrapped seven-branes can be thought of as bound states of more microscopic exotic branes. We argue that the low-energy worldvolume dynamics of a stack of $n$ such exotic branes is given by the $(A_1,A_{n-1})$ Argyres-Douglas theory. Moreover, the splitting of the perturbative (in $alph{a}^{\prime }$) seven-brane into its constituent branes at the non-perturbative level resolves the apparently pathological region close to the seven-brane and replaces it with a region of $mathcalO(1)$ Einstein frame volume. While this region generically takes up an $mathcalO(1)$ fraction of the compactification in a KKLT de Sitter vacuum we argue that a small flux superpotential extit{dynamically} ensures that the 4d effective field theory of KKLT remains valid nevertheless.

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