29 Jun-3 Jul 2026 Paris (France)
Calibration, fuzziness: new results on AdS vacuum decay
Vincent Menet  1, @  , Alessandro Tomasiello  2, @  
1 : Dipartimento di Fisica "Giuseppe Occhialini" = Department of Physics "Giuseppe Occhialini" [Milano-Bicocca]  -  Website
Piazza delle Scienze 3 - I-20126 Milano -  Italy
2 : Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca  (UNIMIB)  -  Website
Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 1 - 20126, Milano -  Italy

Motivated by swampland conjectures, we study the stability of AdS type II supergravity vacua. In the literature, vacuum decay mediated by abelian D-branes has been discussed extensively, while this isn't quite the case for both the D-brane bound states, and their non-abelian counterparts. In this context, we first present a tool to study large classes of D-branes and bound states, based on calibration theory, and then discuss vacuum decay mediated by weakly non-abelian D-branes. We illustrate our results by applying them to a few concrete AdS vacua.



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