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Non-Supersymmetric Stable Vacua of M-Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-03 v2

Abstract

We discuss stability of non-supersymmetric compactification of M-theory and string theory of the form AdS * X, and their dual non-supersymmetric interacting conformal field theories. We argue some of the difficulties in controlling 1/N-corrections disappear in the cases that the large-N dual conformal field theory has no invariant marginal operators (and in some cases with no exactly marginal operators only). We provide several examples of such compactifications of M-theory down to AdS4.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9807200,
  title  = {Non-Supersymmetric Stable Vacua of M-Theory},
  author = {M. Berkooz and Soo-Jong Rey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9807200},
  year   = {2010}
}

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harvmac, no figure, 11 pages, v2: AdS examples changed