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Non-supersymmetric M-theory vacua and dark bubbles
Vincent Menet, Alessandro Tomasiello, Vincent Van Hemelryck
An expanding bubble in AdS has a dS geometry; the dark bubble scenario explores whether this can be our Universe. Motivated by this, we consider new non-supersymmetric AdS$…
5d Higgs branch and instanton magnetization
Amihay Hanany, Alessandro Tomasiello, Elias Van den Driessche
Higgs branches of 5d theories with flavours, whether at weak or strong coupling, are described by a pair of instantons transforming as pure spinors of . The…
Counting AdS Vacua
Zihni Kaan Baykara, Alessandro Tomasiello, Cumrun Vafa
We study the 'number' of AdS vacua with a UV cut off . It has been proposed that this number is finite. We find evidence that …
A weakly non-abelian decay channel
Vincent Menet, Alessandro Tomasiello
We investigate non-abelian branes in curved space. We discuss solutions to the equations of motion of the transverse scalars when they are constant along the world-volume direction…
New punctures for six-dimensional compactifications
Fabio Apruzzi, Noppadol Mekareeya, Brandon Robinson +1
Six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) give rise to four-dimensional (4d) ones when compactified on Riemann surfaces. In the case, this yields th…
AdS vacua of non-supersymmetric strings
Salvatore Raucci, Alessandro Tomasiello
Few vacua are known for the three tachyon-free non-supersymmetric string theories. We find new classes of AdS backgrounds by focusing on spaces where the equations of motion reduce…