Membranes in AdS4 orientifold vacua and their Weak Gravity Conjecture
Abstract We study type IIA orientifold compactifications with fluxes that give rise to perturbatively stable, non-supersymmetric AdS4 vacua with D6-brane gauge sectors. Non-perturbative instabilities can be mediated by D8-branes wrapped on the six internal dimensions X 6, if they reduce to 4d membra...
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| author | Gonzalo F. Casas Fernando Marchesano David Prieto |
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| description | Abstract We study type IIA orientifold compactifications with fluxes that give rise to perturbatively stable, non-supersymmetric AdS4 vacua with D6-brane gauge sectors. Non-perturbative instabilities can be mediated by D8-branes wrapped on the six internal dimensions X 6, if they reduce to 4d membranes with a charge Q larger than its tension T. The mismatch Q ≠ T arises due to i) curvature corrections and ii) the BIon backreaction of D6-branes wrapping 3-cycles of X 6. We give a simple expression for the second effect in toroidal orientifolds, and find that only pairs of 3-cycles at SU(2) angles contribute to it. They either contribute towards Q > T or Q < T depending on the 3-cycles separation, allowing to engineer 4d N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 0 vacua in tension with the Weak Gravity Conjecture for membranes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c7bb542465584bf093860d88d967b7862022-12-22T04:24:48ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792022-09-012022914610.1007/JHEP09(2022)034Membranes in AdS4 orientifold vacua and their Weak Gravity ConjectureGonzalo F. Casas0Fernando Marchesano1David Prieto2Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSICInstituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSICInstituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSICAbstract We study type IIA orientifold compactifications with fluxes that give rise to perturbatively stable, non-supersymmetric AdS4 vacua with D6-brane gauge sectors. Non-perturbative instabilities can be mediated by D8-branes wrapped on the six internal dimensions X 6, if they reduce to 4d membranes with a charge Q larger than its tension T. The mismatch Q ≠ T arises due to i) curvature corrections and ii) the BIon backreaction of D6-branes wrapping 3-cycles of X 6. We give a simple expression for the second effect in toroidal orientifolds, and find that only pairs of 3-cycles at SU(2) angles contribute to it. They either contribute towards Q > T or Q < T depending on the 3-cycles separation, allowing to engineer 4d N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 0 vacua in tension with the Weak Gravity Conjecture for membranes.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2022)034D-BranesFlux CompactificationsSuperstring Vacua |
| spellingShingle | Gonzalo F. Casas Fernando Marchesano David Prieto Membranes in AdS4 orientifold vacua and their Weak Gravity Conjecture Journal of High Energy Physics D-Branes Flux Compactifications Superstring Vacua |
| title | Membranes in AdS4 orientifold vacua and their Weak Gravity Conjecture |
| title_full | Membranes in AdS4 orientifold vacua and their Weak Gravity Conjecture |
| title_fullStr | Membranes in AdS4 orientifold vacua and their Weak Gravity Conjecture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Membranes in AdS4 orientifold vacua and their Weak Gravity Conjecture |
| title_short | Membranes in AdS4 orientifold vacua and their Weak Gravity Conjecture |
| title_sort | membranes in ads4 orientifold vacua and their weak gravity conjecture |
| topic | D-Branes Flux Compactifications Superstring Vacua |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2022)034 |
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