Brane/Flux Annihilation and the String Dual of a Non-Supersymmetric Field Theory

By S. Kachru, J. Pearson, H. Verlinde. 2001

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We consider the dynamics of p anti-D3 branes inside the Klebanov-Strassler geometry, the deformed conifold with M units of RR 3-form flux around the S3. We find that for p << M the system relaxes to a nonsupersymmetric NS 5-brane `giant graviton' configuration, which is classically stable, but quantum mechanically can tunnel to a nearby supersymmetric vacuum with M−p D3 branes. This decay mode is exponentially suppressed and proceeds via the nucleation of an NS 5-brane bubble wall. We propose a dual field theory interpretation of the decay as the transition between a nonsupersymmetric `baryonic' branch and a supersymmetric `mesonic' branch of the corresponding SU(2M−p) × SU(M−p) low energy gauge theory. The NS 5-brane tunneling process also provides a simple visualization of the geometric transition by which D3-branes can dissolve into 3-form flux.

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The Scaling of the No Scale Potential and de Sitter Model Building (2004, methodology): “One ingredient of the model [2] is an anti-D3-brane in a warped 3-brane throat of a Calabi-Yau compactification of type IIB string theory [9].”
The Swampland: Introduction and Review (2019, background): “Locally, near the tip, the metric takes the form [525,526]”
De Sitter Space In Non-Critical String Theory (2002, unknown): “In addition to the instanton decays to the linear dilaton regime discussed above, there is also the possibility of transitions among the different flux vacua, as in [20][13][16][41].”
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Inflation from warped space (2005, background): “The fluxantibrane annihilation process in such a throat proceeds through quantum tunneling [39,22].”
On the moduli space of the cascading SU(M+p) ? SU(p) gauge theory (2005, background): “In the supergravity dual this domain wall is an NS5-brane wrapped over the 3-sphere [28].”
Enumerating flux vacua with enhanced symmetries (2004, background): “Inclusion of Kähler Moduli In general, Kähler moduli are also present in these systems, and they do not acquire a potential from the flux superpotential (2.4).”
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Inflating in a Better Racetrack (2006, background): “The presence of these branes does not introduce extra translational moduli since their positions are fixed by the fluxes [25], and so their low-energy effect is just a contribution to the energy density of the system.”