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We find four-dimensional de Sitter (dS) vacuum solutions on probe D-branes which nucleate in an asymptotically $\text{AdS}_5\times T^{1,1}$ background, including stringy corrections. A sufficiently high chemical potential induced by the…

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The $AdS_3\times S^3$ string sigma model supported both by NS-NS and R-R fluxes has become a well known integrable model, however a putative dual field theory description remains incomplete. We study the anomalous dimensions of twist…

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We study the 'number' $\mathfrak{N}(\mu)$ of AdS vacua with a UV cut off $ \mu$. It has been proposed that this number is finite. We find evidence that $\mathfrak{N}(\mu)\sim a \ \mu^{-b}$ as $\mu \rightarrow 0$ for some constants $a$ and…

We discuss the vacuum energy density and the cosmological constant of dS$_5$ brane world with a dilaton field. It is shown that a stable AdS$_4$ brane can be constructed and gravity localization can be realized. An explicit relation between…

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