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Over-extremal brane shells from string theory?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-11-23 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate that, if the usual phenomenological compactifications of IIB string theory with warped throats and anti-branes make sense, there must exist spherical brane shells in 4d that are overcharged. They correspond to classical over-extremal objects but without the usual naked singularities. The objects are made from D3-particles that puff into spherical 5-branes that stabilise at finite radii in 4d and whose inside corresponds to the supersymmetric AdS vacuum. One can think of these shells as stabilised Brown-Teitelboim bubbles. We find that these objects can be significantly larger than the string scale depending on the details of the warped compactification.

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@article{arxiv.2206.04506,
  title  = {Over-extremal brane shells from string theory?},
  author = {Ulf Danielsson and Vincent Van Hemelryck and Thomas Van Riet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.04506},
  year   = {2022}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures

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