2015/02/04 by Danielsson, Ulf H.
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1502.01234
In this paper we suggest a new source of perturbative decay of the KPV-state, which might have consequences for the viability of the KKLT-construction. The results do not rely on any direct enhancement of the decay due to flux accumulating on the anti-brane in transverse space. Instead, we note that the system can lower its energy through a sequence of NS5-configurations all the way to the true vacuum, without encountering a barrier, if we allow for clumping of screened charge in space time. The clumping can possibly be a parallel to the Gregory-Laflamme instability of black branes. The results are obtained at large p, but for p/M arbitrarily small. It is furthermore argued that the results extend to cases of few or single anti-branes where quantization becomes important. We believe that it is important to investigate this possible effect further to judge whether there are any fatal consequences.