On non-supersymmetric stable marginal deformations in AdS${}_3$/CFT${}_2$

Abstract

We discuss a continuous family of non-supersymmetric AdS${}_3\times S^3\times {\mathrm{T}}^4$ vacua in heterotic and type II supergravities whose complete Kaluza-Klein spectrum is computed and found to be free from instabilities. This family is protected as well against some non-perturbative decay channels, and as such it provides the first candidate for a non-supersymmetric holographic conformal manifold in 2$d$. We also describe the operators realising the deformations in the worldsheet and boundary CFT's.

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