Federico Carta
Resolving spacetime singularities in flux compactifications & KKLT
Carta, Federico; Moritz, Jakob
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Jakob Moritz
Abstract
In flux compactifications of type IIB string theory with D3 and seven-branes, the negative induced D3 charge localized on seven-branes leads to an apparently pathological profile of the metric sufficiently close to the source. With the volume modulus stabilized in a KKLT de Sitter vacuum this pathological region takes over a significant part of the entire compactification, threatening to spoil the KKLT effective field theory. In this paper we employ the Seiberg-Witten solution of pure SU(N) super Yang-Mills theory to argue that wrapped seven-branes can be thought of as bound states of more microscopic exotic branes. We argue that the low-energy worldvolume dynamics of a stack of n such exotic branes is given by the (A1, An−1) Argyres-Douglas theory. Moreover, the splitting of the perturbative (in α′) seven-brane into its constituent branes at the non-perturbative level resolves the apparently pathological region close to the seven-brane and replaces it with a region of O(1) Einstein frame volume. While this region generically takes up an O(1) fraction of the compactification in a KKLT de Sitter vacuum we argue that a small flux superpotential dynamically ensures that the 4d effective field theory of KKLT remains valid nevertheless.
Citation
Carta, F., & Moritz, J. (2021). Resolving spacetime singularities in flux compactifications & KKLT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(8), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282021%29093
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 1, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 18, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2021 |
Deposit Date | Nov 9, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 9, 2021 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Print ISSN | 1126-6708 |
Electronic ISSN | 1029-8479 |
Publisher | Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 2021 |
Issue | 8 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282021%29093 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1222656 |
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