Smeared versus localised sources in flux compactifications

Details Smeared versus localised sources in flux compactifications Smeared versus localised sources in flux compactifications

2010-09-09

arxiv.org/abs/1009.1877v2

JHEP 1012:043,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

23 pages; v2: minor corrections, added references, version published in JHEP

Scientific paper

10.1007/JHEP12(2010)043

We investigate whether vacuum solutions in flux compactifications that are obtained with smeared sources (orientifolds or D-branes) still survive when the sources are localised. This seems to rely on whether the solutions are BPS or not. First we consider two sets of BPS solutions that both relate to the GKP solution through T-dualities: (p+1)-dimensional solutions from spacetime-filling Op-planes with a conformally Ricci-flat internal space, and p-dimensional solutions with Op-planes that wrap a 1-cycle inside an everywhere negatively curved twisted torus. The relation between the solution with smeared orientifolds and the localised version is worked out in detail. We then demonstrate that a class of non-BPS AdS_4 solutions that exist for IASD fluxes and with smeared D3-branes (or analogously for ISD fluxes with anti-D3-branes) does not survive the localisation of the (anti) D3-branes. This casts doubts on the stringy consistency of non-BPS solutions that are obtained in the limit of smeared sources.

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