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Nonsupersymmetric brane vacua in stabilized compactifications

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-03-03 v3

Abstract

We derive the equations for the nonsupersymmetric vacua of D3-branes in the presence of nonperturbative moduli stabilization in type IIB flux compactifications, and solve and analyze them in the case of two particular 7-brane embeddings at the bottom of the warped deformed conifold. In the limit of large volume and long throat, we obtain vacua by imposing a constraint on the 7-brane embedding. These vacua fill out continuous spaces of higher dimension than the corresponding supersymmetric vacua, and have negative effective cosmological constant. Perturbative stability of these vacua is possible but not generic. Finally, we argue that anti-D3-branes at the tip of the conifold share the same vacua as D3-branes.

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@article{arxiv.0806.4399,
  title  = {Nonsupersymmetric brane vacua in stabilized compactifications},
  author = {Charles Max Brown and Oliver DeWolfe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4399},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX. v2: references added, typo fixed. v3: version appearing in JHEP

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