Remote Nordic HET seminar: Alessandra Gnecchi

Speaker: Alessandra Gnecchi

Title: On AdS7 Stability – a perturbative and non-perturbative analysis

Abstract: The stability of non-supersymmetric vacua obtained from string theory is receiving a lot of attention due to its implications for the recent generalizations of the Weak Gravity Conjecture. Starting from the known classification of supersymmetric AdS7 vacua in massive type IIA supergravity, I will present the study of their non-supersymmetric counterparts. For a large subset of them, perturbative instabilities can be found both from a 7D Supergravity analysis as well as from the study of polarization of the D6 brane action in 10D. For the remaining, perturbative stable ones, I will show the existence of a non-perturbative decay channel mediated by an NS5 bubble nucleation.

Zoom link: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/64134854447

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