Curvature corrections to KPV: do we need deep throats?

A Hebecker, S Schreyer, G Venken - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We consider α′ 2 curvature corrections to the action of an NS5-brane which plays
the key role in the metastability analysis of warped anti-D3-brane uplifts by Kachru, Pearson …

Giant tachyons in the landscape

I Bena, M Grana, S Kuperstein, S Massai - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We study the dynamics of localized and fully backreacting anti-D3 branes at the tip
of the Klebanov-Strassler geometry. We use a non-supersymmetric version of the Polchinski …

Non-extremal black hole microstates: fuzzballs of fire or fuzzballs of fuzz?

I Bena, A Puhm, B Vercnocke - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We construct the first family of microstate geometries of near-extremal black holes,
by placing metastable supertube probes inside certain scaling supersymmetric smooth …

Fatal attraction: more on decaying anti-branes

UH Danielsson, T Van Riet - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We elaborate on the decay of branes inside throat geometries that are supported
by flux carrying charges opposite to the brane. Our main point is that such back-grounds …

[HTML][HTML] The flaw in the firewall argument

SD Mathur, D Turton - Nuclear Physics B, 2014 - Elsevier
A lot of confusion surrounds the issue of black hole complementarity, because the question
has been considered without discussing the mechanism which guarantees unitarity …

Resolving anti-brane singularities through time-dependence

J Blåbäck, UH Danielsson, T Van Riet - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013 - Springer
A bstract In this note we discuss a possible resolution of the flux singularities associated with
the insertion of branes in backgrounds supported by fluxes that carry charges opposite to the …

The problematic backreaction of SUSY-breaking branes

J Blåbäck, UH Danielsson, D Junghans… - Journal of High Energy …, 2011 - Springer
In this paper we investigate the localisation of SUSY-breaking branes which, in the smeared
approximation, support specific non-BPS vacua. We show, for a wide class of boundary …

Horizons cannot save the Landscape

I Bena, A Buchel, OJC Dias - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation …, 2013 - APS
Solutions with anti-D3 branes in a Klebanov-Strassler geometry with positive charge
dissolved in fluxes have a certain singularity corresponding to a diverging energy density of …

On metastable vacua and the warped deformed conifold: analytic results

I Bena, G Giecold, M Grana, N Halmagyi… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Continuing the programme of constructing the backreacted solution corresponding to
smeared anti-D3 branes in the warped deformed conifold, we solve analytically the …

Polchinski-Strassler does not uplift Klebanov-Strassler

I Bena, M Grana, S Kuperstein, S Massai - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013 - Springer
A bstract Anti-D3-branes at the tip of the Klebanov-Strassler solution with D3-charge
dissolved in fluxes give rise, in the probe approximation, to a metastable state. The fully back …