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Polchinski-Strassler does not uplift Klebanov-Strassler
Iosif Bena, Mariana Grana, Stanislav Kuperstein +1
Anti-D3-branes at the tip of the Klebanov-Strassler solution with D3-charge dissolved in fluxes give rise, in the probe approximation, to a metastable state. The fully back-reacted…
Anti-D3's - Singular to the Bitter End
Iosif Bena, Mariana Grana, Stanislav Kuperstein +1
We study the full backreaction of anti-D3 branes smeared over the tip of the deformed conifold. Requiring the 5-form flux and warp factor at the tip to be that of anti-D3 branes, w…
Persistent anti-brane singularities
Iosif Bena, Daniel Junghans, Stanislav Kuperstein +3
Anti-D-branes inserted in warped throat geometries (supported by fluxes that carry D-brane charges) develop unphysical singularities. It has been argued that these singularities co…