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On SUSY-breaking Moduli Spaces of AdS$_7$ Vacua and 6D SCFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-02 v2

Abstract

We study supersymmetric AdS7_7 vacua of massive type IIA string theory, which were argued to describe the near-horizon limit of NS5/D6/D8-brane intersections and to be holographically dual to 6D (1,0)(1,0) theories. We show, for the case without D8-brane charges, that such vacua do not admit any supersymmetry-breaking deformations. Our result implies that the dual (1,0)(1,0) theories do not have a conformal manifold, thus extending previously known results for supersymmetric deformations. It is also in line with the recent conjecture that non-supersymmetric AdS vacua are in the swampland.

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@article{arxiv.1902.04084,
  title  = {On SUSY-breaking Moduli Spaces of AdS$_7$ Vacua and 6D SCFTs},
  author = {Daniel Junghans and Marco Zagermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.04084},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

17 pages, 1 figure. v2: minor corrections, references added