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Metastable Nonextremal Antibranes

Armas, J.; Nguyen, N.; Niarchos, V.; Obers, N. A.; Van Riet, T.

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J. Armas

N. Nguyen

V. Niarchos

N. A. Obers

T. Van Riet



Abstract

We find new and compelling evidence for the metastability of supersymmetry-breaking states in holographic backgrounds whose consistency has been the source of ongoing disagreements in the literature. As a concrete example, we analyze anti-D3 branes at the tip of the Klebanov-Strassler throat. Using the blackfold formalism we examine how temperature affects the conjectured metastable state and determine whether and how the existing extremal results generalize when going beyond extremality. In the extremal limit we exactly recover the results of Kachru, Pearson, and Verlinde, in a regime of parameter space that was previously inaccessible. Away from extremality we uncover a metastable black Neveu-Schwarz five-brane (NS5) state that disappears near a geometric transition where black anti-D3 branes and black NS5 branes become indistinguishable. This is remarkably consistent with complementary earlier results based on the analysis of regularity conditions of backreacted solutions. We therefore provide highly nontrivial evidence for the metastability of antibranes in noncompact throat geometries since we find a consistent picture over different regimes in parameter space.

Citation

Armas, J., Nguyen, N., Niarchos, V., Obers, N., & Van Riet, T. (2019). Metastable Nonextremal Antibranes. Physical Review Letters, 122(18), Article 181601. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.181601

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 15, 2019
Online Publication Date May 9, 2019
Publication Date May 9, 2019
Deposit Date May 13, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Physical Review Letters
Print ISSN 0031-9007
Electronic ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 122
Issue 18
Article Number 181601
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.181601

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