Remarks on brane and antibrane dynamics

By B. Michel, Eric Mintun, J. Polchinski, Andrea Puhm, Phil Saad. 2014

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A bstractWe develop the point of view that brane actions should be understood in the context of effective field theory, and that this is the correct way to treat classical as well as loop divergences. We illustrate this idea in a simple model. We then consider the implications for the dynamics of antibranes in flux backgrounds, focusing on the simplest case of a single antibrane. We argue that that effective field theory gives a valid description of the antibrane, and that there is no instability in this approximation. Further, conservation laws exclude possible nonperturbative decays, aside from the well-known NS5-brane instanton.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. Eran Palti
2. Andrei Linde
3. R. Kallosh
4. Yashar Akrami
5. V. Vardanyan
6. T. Riet
7. U. Danielsson
8. D. Roest

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• D3¯\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ \overline{\mathrm{D}3} $$\end{document} and dS (2015, unknown): “Our approach is complementary to recent studies in [17, 18]: we study the D3 brane action with the explicit fermions on the world-volume.”
• What if string theory has no de Sitter vacua? (2018, background): “in [125] (and [141]). Hence a natural question is then whether the singularity is somehow an artefact of using supergravity instead of full string theory. This was indeed argued for a single D3 brane [127,142]. However, things do not need to be too complicated and supergravity can be smart enough: r”
• The Swampland: Introduction and Review (2019, background): “s in the supergravity equations, or whether those singularities are not problematic and are resolved in string theory. The conclusions are not completely clear, but it appears that, in particular see [535], at least for a single anti-D3 there is no inconsistency. Another aspect which was studied is ”