Proof of absence of de Sitter vacua in classical type II supergravity

Harald Skarke

Proof of absence of de Sitter vacua in classical type II supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-09-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Authors: Harald Skarke

Abstract

We consider classical type II supergravity with arbitrary fluxes, Dirichlet branes and orientifold planes and prove that a four-dimensional compactification of this theory can never correspond to a metastable de Sitter state.

Keywords

type ii supergravity de sitter vacua flux compactification dirichlet branes orientifold planes no-go theorem

Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.01832,
  title  = {Proof of absence of de Sitter vacua in classical type II supergravity},
  author = {Harald Skarke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.01832},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

The proof as given in v1 cannot be correct bcause, with the same methods, a number of well-known models could also be excluded. The error consisted in an application of the variational principle in section 4 in a manner that was too general, particularly with respect to nontrivial fluxes

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