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Instabilities in scale-separated Casimir vacua

2025/07/23 by Miquel Aparici, Ivano Basile, Aparici, Miquel +3 · 1 citation
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.17802

Abstract

Parametric scale separation is notoriously difficult to achieve in flux compactifications of gravitational effective theories. An appealing alternative to conventional Freund-Rubin vacua involves Ricci-flat internal manifolds, where the energy supplied by fluxes is balanced not by curvature but by the Casimir energy. The internal volume can be stabilized by this mechanism producing anti-de Sitter geometries with parametric scale separation, including an explicit example in eleven-dimensional supergravity. We study deformations of these geometries, showing the presence of perturbative and non-perturbative instabilities.

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