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Unstoppable brane-flux decay of $\overline{\text{D6}}$ branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-04-26 v2

Abstract

We investigate pp D6\overline{\text{D6}} branes inside a flux throat that carries K×MK \times M D6 charges with KK the 3-form flux quantum and MM the Romans mass. We find that within the calculable supergravity regime where gspg_s p is large, the D6\overline{\text{D6}} branes annihilate immediately against the fluxes despite the existence of a metastable state at small p/Mp/M in the probe approximation. The crucial property that causes this naive conflict with effective field theory is a singularity in the 3-form flux, which we cut off at string scale. Our result explains the absence of regular solutions at finite temperature and suggests there should be a smooth time-dependent solution. We also discuss the qualitative differences between D6\overline{\text{D6}} branes and D3\overline{\text{D3}} branes, which makes it a priori not obvious to conclude the same instability for D3\overline{\text{D3}} branes.

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@article{arxiv.1609.06529,
  title  = {Unstoppable brane-flux decay of $\overline{\text{D6}}$ branes},
  author = {U. H. Danielsson and F. F. Gautason and T. Van Riet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.06529},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

26 pages, 6 figures. V2: Corrections to equations and typos