Tachyonic de Sitter Solutions of 10d Type II Supergravities

Jan 15, 2021
31 pages
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  • Fortsch.Phys. 69 (2021) 7, 2100063
  • Published: Jul 1, 2021
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Abstract: (WILEY)
Cosmological models of the early or late universe exhibit (quasi) de Sitter space-times with different stability properties. Considering models derived from string theory, the swampland program does not provide for now a definite characterisation of this stability. In this work we focus on de Sitter solutions of 10d type II supergravities, candidates for classical de Sitter string backgrounds: surprisingly, all known examples are unstable with . We aim at proving the existence of such a systematic tachyon, and getting formally a bound on the value of . To that end, we develop three methods, giving us various sufficient conditions for having a tachyon upon assumptions, in analogy with de Sitter no-go theorems. Our analysis eventually indicates the existence of variety of different tachyons, and related bounds on . We use this knowledge to find 10 new de Sitter solutions of type IIB supergravity, that have tachyons of a different kind, higher values and new 6d geometries. One solution even appears to be stable, with however non-compact extra dimensions.
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  • v2: 31 pages + appendices; few additions, including references and 5 figures. A Mathematica Notebook is provided here as an ancillary file with all solutions of this paper arXiv:2101.06251, as well as those of arXiv:2005.12930
  • cosmology
  • classical de Sitter solutions
  • string phenomenology
  • supergravity compactifications
  • tachyons
  • space-time: de Sitter
  • supergravity: Type IIB
  • tachyon
  • stability
  • cosmological model