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A note on obstinate tachyons in classical dS solutions
Ulf H. Danielsson, Gary Shiu, Thomas Van Riet +1
The stabilisation of the dilaton and volume in tree-level flux compactifications leads to model independent and thus very powerful existence and stability criteria for dS solutions…
New N=1 dualities from orientifold transitions - Part I: Field Theory
Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Ben Heidenreich, Timm Wrase
We report on a broad new class of N=1 gauge theory dualities which relate the worldvolume gauge theories of D3 branes probing different orientifolds of the same Calabi-Yau singular…
Holographic Wilson Loops, Dielectric Interfaces, and Topological Insulators
John Estes, Andy O'Bannon, Efstratios Tsatis +1
We use holography to study (3+1)-dimensional N=4 supersymmetric SU(Nc) Yang-Mills theory (SYM) in the large-Nc and large coupling limits, with a (2+1)-dimensional interface where t…
Supersymmetric Vacua in Random Supergravity
Thomas C. Bachlechner, David Marsh, Liam McAllister +1
We determine the spectrum of scalar masses in a supersymmetric vacuum of a general N=1 supergravity theory, with the Kahler potential and superpotential taken to be random function…
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…
The Wasteland of Random Supergravities
David Marsh, Liam McAllister, Timm Wrase
We show that in a general \cal{N} = 1 supergravity with N \gg 1 scalar fields, an exponentially small fraction of the de Sitter critical points are metastable vacua. Taking the sup…