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Main Authors: Menet, Vincent, Tomasiello, Alessandro
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02787
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author Menet, Vincent
Tomasiello, Alessandro
author_facet Menet, Vincent
Tomasiello, Alessandro
contents Supersymmetric vacua are protected from vacuum decay by energy positivity. No such argument is known for any non-supersymmetric vacua. In this paper, we try to extend to the latter a simpler argument based on calibrations, to at least protect them from decays mediated by D-brane bubbles, including their abelian bound states. We examine several classes of AdS$_4$ and AdS$_5$ solutions in type II string theory, including some new ones, involving coset spaces, sphere fibrations, Kähler--Einstein manifolds. Many of these vacua have resisted against all the decay channels we were able to assess. We also show how to use calibrations for the stability of D-branes already present in a non-supersymmetric solution.
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spellingShingle Stability of non-supersymmetric vacua from calibrations
Menet, Vincent
Tomasiello, Alessandro
High Energy Physics - Theory
Supersymmetric vacua are protected from vacuum decay by energy positivity. No such argument is known for any non-supersymmetric vacua. In this paper, we try to extend to the latter a simpler argument based on calibrations, to at least protect them from decays mediated by D-brane bubbles, including their abelian bound states. We examine several classes of AdS$_4$ and AdS$_5$ solutions in type II string theory, including some new ones, involving coset spaces, sphere fibrations, Kähler--Einstein manifolds. Many of these vacua have resisted against all the decay channels we were able to assess. We also show how to use calibrations for the stability of D-branes already present in a non-supersymmetric solution.
title Stability of non-supersymmetric vacua from calibrations
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02787