A swamp of non-SUSY vacua. (November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Danielsson, U.; Dibitetto, G.; Vargas, S.
• Is Part Of: Journal of high energy physics. Volume 11(2017)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 22
• Publication Date: 2017-11
• Subjects: Supersymmetry Breaking -- Superstring Vacua -- AdS-CFT Correspondence; Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Periodicals; Particules (Physique nucléaire) -- Périodiques; 539.7605
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2017)152
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1029-8479

Abstract

Abstract We consider known examples of non-supersymmetric AdS7 and AdS4 solutions arising from compactifications of massive type IIA supergravity and study their stability, taking into account the coupling between closed- and open-string sector excitations. Generically, open strings are found to develop modes with masses below the Breitenlohner-Freedman (BF) bound. We comment on the relation with the Weak Gravity Conjecture, and how this analysis may play an important role in examining the validity of non-supersymmetric constructions in string theory.