Unstoppable brane-flux decay of $\overline{\text{D6}}$ branes
Abstract
We investigate branes inside a flux throat that carries D6 charges with the 3-form flux quantum and the Romans mass. We find that within the calculable supergravity regime where is large, the branes annihilate immediately against the fluxes despite the existence of a metastable state at small 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 branes and branes, which makes it a priori not obvious to conclude the same instability for branes.
Cite
@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