AdS scale separation and the distance conjecture

Shiu, Gary; Tonioni, Flavio; Van Hemelryck, Vincent; Van Riet, Thomas

doi:10.1007/jhep05(2023)077

AdS scale separation and the distance conjecture

Journal Article · Tue May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05(2023)077· OSTI ID:2420616

Shiu, Gary ^[1]; Tonioni, Flavio ^[2]; ^[3]; Van Riet, Thomas ^[4]

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Heverlee (Belgium)
Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Heverlee (Belgium)

It has been argued that orientifold vacua with fluxes in type IIA string theory can achieve moduli stabilisation and arbitrary decoupling between the AdS and KK scales upon sending certain unconstrained RR-flux quanta to infinity. In this paper, we find a novel scalar field in the open-string sector that allows us to interpolate between such IIA vacua that differ in flux quanta and find that the limit of large fluxes is nicely consistent with the distance conjecture. This shows that the massive IIA vacua pass an important Swampland criterion and suggests that scale-separated AdS vacua might not be in the Swampland. Our analysis also naturally suggests a flux analogue of “Reid’s fantasy” where flux vacua that differ in quantised flux numbers can be connected through trajectories in open-string field space and not just via singular domain walls.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0017647

OSTI ID:: 2420616

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 2023; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer NatureCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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