Warping and Supersymmetry Breaking
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-01-28 v2
Abstract
We analyze supersymmetry breaking by anti-self-dual flux in the deformed conifold. This theory has been argued to be a dual realization of susy breaking by antibranes. As such, one might expect it to lead to a hierarchically small breaking scale, but only if the warp factor is taken into account. We verify this by explicitly computing the warp-modified moduli space metric. This leads to a new term, with a power-like divergence at the conifold point, which lowers the breaking scale. We finally point out various puzzles regarding the gauge theory interpretation of these results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0704.4001,
title = {Warping and Supersymmetry Breaking},
author = {Michael R. Douglas and Jessie Shelton and Gonzalo Torroba},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.4001},
year = {2008}
}