Perturbative decay of anti-branes in flux backgrounds due to space time instabilities

U. Danielsson

Published 2015 in arXiv: High Energy Physics - Theory

ABSTRACT

In this paper we suggest a new source of perturbative decay of the KPV-state, which might have consequences for the viability of the KKLT-construction. The results do not rely on any direct enhancement of the decay due to flux accumulating on the anti-brane in transverse space. Instead, we note that the system can lower its energy through a sequence of NS5-configurations all the way to the true vacuum, without encountering a barrier, if we allow for clumping of screened charge in space time. The clumping can possibly be a parallel to the Gregory-Laflamme instability of black branes. The results are obtained at large pp, but for p/MpM arbitrarily small. It is furthermore argued that the results extend to cases of few or single anti-branes where quantization becomes important. We believe that it is important to investigate this possible effect further to judge whether there are any fatal consequences.

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    2015

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    arXiv: High Energy Physics - Theory

  • Publication date

    2015-02-04

  • Fields of study

    Physics

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