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arxiv: 2507.02787 · v3 · submitted 2025-07-03 · ✦ hep-th

Stability of non-supersymmetric vacua from calibrations

Vincent Menet , Alessandro Tomasiello This is my paper

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keywords non-supersymmetric vacuacalibrationsD-brane stabilityAdS solutionstype II string theoryvacuum decaycoset spacesbrane bubbles
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Calibrations protect many non-supersymmetric AdS vacua from D-brane bubble decays in string theory.

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The paper seeks to extend the protective power of calibrations from supersymmetric to non-supersymmetric vacua in type II string theory. Supersymmetric cases are safe from decay thanks to energy positivity, but non-supersymmetric ones lack such a general shield. By using calibrations to set lower bounds on the energy of D-brane bubbles and their bound states, the authors analyze various AdS4 and AdS5 solutions on coset spaces, sphere fibrations, and Kähler-Einstein manifolds. Many of these vacua show no viable decay paths through the channels considered. The same tool is used to evaluate the stability of D-branes that are already part of the non-supersymmetric solution.

Core claim

We show that calibrations can be used to protect non-supersymmetric AdS4 and AdS5 vacua in type II string theory from decays mediated by D-brane bubbles, including abelian bound states. Examining classes of solutions involving coset spaces, sphere fibrations and Kähler-Einstein manifolds, we find that many resist all assessed decay channels. We also explain how calibrations can be employed to check the stability of D-branes present in a non-supersymmetric solution.

What carries the argument

D-brane calibrations, which provide a lower bound for the energy of D-branes and their bound states in a given background, applied to ensure no lower energy bubble can nucleate in non-supersymmetric geometries.

If this is right

  • Several classes of non-supersymmetric AdS solutions are stable against D-brane bubble decays.
  • The protection applies to both AdS4 and AdS5 solutions.
  • Calibrations serve as a tool for D-brane stability analysis in these backgrounds.
  • New solutions on coset spaces and other manifolds can be tested for this type of stability.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This technique might be adaptable to check stability against other potential decay modes not involving D-branes.
  • Stable non-supersymmetric vacua identified this way could serve as starting points for more detailed phenomenological studies.
  • Similar calibration bounds could potentially apply in other string theory setups with different fluxes or dimensions.

Load-bearing premise

The lower bounds from calibrations continue to hold and minimize the energy for D-branes in non-supersymmetric geometries without additional constraints that might allow lower energy states.

What would settle it

An explicit D-brane bubble configuration in one of the examined vacua with total energy less than the calibration lower bound would show that the protection fails for that case.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2507.02787 by Alessandro Tomasiello, Vincent Menet.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: A bubble of new vacuum. The bottom gray part represents the instanton in Euclidean time; the upper black part, its subsequent Lorentzian time evolution. Consider a brane action consisting of the usual volume term and a coupling to a top￾dimensional gauge field: S = −τ R d d−1σ √ −g−q R Ad−1. The field strength will be proportional to the volume form: Fd = hvold. Specializing the Wick-rotated action to (3.1… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Behaviour of anti brane and brane bubbles wrapping an almost calibrated generalized cycle (Σ˜c, F˜c) in terms of the value of the integrated supersymmetry breaking term. that the numerator can be interpreted as a WZ like term, contributing to the expansion of the bubble, while one can think of the denominator as an estimate for the DBI term, contributing to its contraction. The criterion then states that t… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Stability ratio of D2 bubbles for the supersymmetric solutions and various non-supersymmetric solutions. The red line indicates instability of the given solution under the nucleation and expansion of such bubbles, and the black lines signify stability. Note that the σ interval for non-supersymmetric solutions is wider than the supersymmetric one, as discussed in [23]. d(Ime−B ∧ Φ+)2 = 0 can be arranged by … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Combined stability ratio for D2, D4, D6, and D8 bubbles, for the supersymmetric solution and various non-supersymmetric ones. The red line indicates the inconclusiveness of our criteria to determine whether or not the given solution is stable under the nucleation and expansion of bubbles, and the black lines signify stability against all bubbles [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Lower and upper bounds on the minimal DBI action for a cycle on the fiber, shown here for one of the solutions at σ = 1.3. Overall we get rD4 = max s∈{±1} gsL(−f4FR2 + 2ff6σ) −3shR3 + 6fσ(σ + 2s) p h 2R2 + (σ + 2s) 2 . (4.19) To check which solutions are stable according to the criterion in (3.14), we now need to check that |rD4| < 1 for every f. It is enough to maximize in f, so as to check the worst-case… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: below. Combining bound states. Let us now bring together all the bound states we analyzed. We define once again a combined stability ratio rmax = max{|rD2|, |rD4|, |rD6|, |rD8|} for each solution at a given value of σ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Stability ratio of D2 bubbles for the supersymmetric solutions and various non-supersymmetric solutions, with σ2 = 1.5. The red line indicates instability of the given solution under the nucleation and expansion of such bubbles, and the black lines signify stability. The stability ratios (4.35) have the same structure than in the CP3 case: they each depend on a single world-volume flux, and they have a pol… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Combined stability ratio for bound states, for the supersymmetric solution and various non￾supersymmetric ones, with σ2 = 3 2 . The red line indicates the inconclusiveness of our criteria to determine whether or not the given solution is stable under the nucleation and expansion of bound states, and the black lines signify stability against all 2πfws = f1(j1 − j2) + f2(j1 − j3) bound states [PITH_FULL_IMA… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Different regions of the σ1σ2 plane: the inside of the grey triangle-like contour corresponds to the region admitting supersymmetric solutions. The sub-regions delimited by light grey lines are equivalent up to the symmetries (4.30). We therefore analyse only the fundamental region {σ1 ≥ σ2, σ2 ≥ 1}. Along the light grey lines lie the twistor solutions. The red region admits at least one unstable non￾super… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: The stability ratio (4.43) for various Dp-branes.16 On a 2k-cycle B2k, ImΦ+ is proportional to J k times a trigonometric function. We can maximize in θ independently for each k. This leads to maxθ(ImΦ+)2k = J k/k!. The form J and its powers are closed and therefore proper calibrations. Locally we can complete Φ+ to a compatible pair of pure spinors by taking Φ− = Ω. In general this is not globally defined… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: The window of instability ratio for D4 bound states diverges as z → −1/3, the skew-whiffed limit. D4. On a two-cycle B2, h 2 (B2, R) = 1: all closed two-forms are proportional up to exact forms, so we can just take F = fJ. Im(e−F ∧ Φ+)2 = −(sin θf + cos θ)J; maximizing this in θ we obtain p 1 + f 2J. Once again R B2 J simplifies in the stability ratio, which becomes rD4 = gsR 6 p f4 + ff6 1 + f 2 . (4.45)… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Region of stability for all simple Dp-branes for the AdS4 × (S 2 ) 3 solution. 5.1 General formalism The internal spaces we will consider are S 1 -fibrations over Kähler–Einstein manifolds KE4 (Sec. 5.2) and over a product of Riemann surfaces (Sec. 5.3). Some of these solutions were already found in [26]; some are new. In terms of internal quantities, the IIB equations of motion and Bianchi identities are… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: The probe D6-brane wrapping Σ = (ρ, S2 ) at the locus {σ = 0, η = k}, and a neighbouring probe D6-brane wrapping Σ ′ = (ρ, S2 ) at {σ = r sin α, η = k − r cos α}, where r is small and r and α are arbitrary functions of the internal coordinates. (We don’t take r and α to be arbitrary functions of ρ, the radial direction of AdS5.) We introduced α˜ = π − α for visual clarity. with p = p(σ, η) an arbitrary fu… view at source ↗
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Supersymmetric vacua are protected from vacuum decay by energy positivity. No such argument is known for any non-supersymmetric vacua. In this paper, we try to extend to the latter a simpler argument based on calibrations, to at least protect them from decays mediated by D-brane bubbles, including their abelian bound states. We examine several classes of AdS$_4$ and AdS$_5$ solutions in type II string theory, including some new ones, involving coset spaces, sphere fibrations, K\"ahler--Einstein manifolds. Many of these vacua have resisted against all the decay channels we were able to assess. We also show how to use calibrations for the stability of D-branes already present in a non-supersymmetric solution.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper extends calibration arguments, previously used for supersymmetric vacua, to argue for stability of non-supersymmetric AdS4 and AdS5 vacua in type II string theory against D-brane bubble decays (including abelian bound states). It analyzes multiple classes of solutions on coset spaces, sphere fibrations, and Kähler-Einstein manifolds (including some new examples), reporting that many resist all assessed decay channels, and shows how calibrations can assess stability of D-branes already present in non-SUSY solutions.

Significance. If the calibration bounds are shown to apply without supersymmetry, the work would offer a concrete tool for probing stability in non-SUSY string vacua where standard positivity arguments are unavailable. The explicit treatment of several example classes, including new solutions, provides testable cases that could inform the swampland program and model-building efforts.

major comments (2)
  1. [§2] §2 (and the derivation leading to the bound used in §4): the manuscript applies standard calibrated-geometry inequalities to non-SUSY backgrounds, but does not explicitly verify that the calibration form remains minimizing once the SUSY variation condition |dPhi| + flux contractions = 0 is dropped; extra positive terms from non-SUSY curvature or H-flux could appear in the Euclidean action, directly affecting the central stability claim.
  2. [§5.1] §5.1 (coset and sphere-fibration examples): the claim that these vacua resist all assessed decay channels rests on the calibration bound holding independently of Killing spinors, yet no independent check (e.g., direct computation of the energy functional without SUSY equations) is reported; this is load-bearing for the statement that 'many of these vacua have resisted against all the decay channels we were able to assess.'
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2: the notation for the new solutions could be clarified by explicitly listing the flux quantization conditions alongside the metric ansatz.
  2. [Figure 2] Figure 2: the diagram of D-brane bubble nucleation would benefit from an added legend distinguishing the supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric cases.

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for the constructive comments. We address the major comments point by point below.

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  1. Referee: [§2] §2 (and the derivation leading to the bound used in §4): the manuscript applies standard calibrated-geometry inequalities to non-SUSY backgrounds, but does not explicitly verify that the calibration form remains minimizing once the SUSY variation condition |dPhi| + flux contractions = 0 is dropped; extra positive terms from non-SUSY curvature or H-flux could appear in the Euclidean action, directly affecting the central stability claim.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee drawing attention to this point. The calibration inequality follows from the closedness of the p-form and Stokes' theorem applied to the difference between the actual volume form and the calibration form; this step is purely geometric and does not invoke the supersymmetry variations. In the non-supersymmetric backgrounds we consider, we explicitly construct closed calibration forms that satisfy the required algebraic inequalities on the internal manifold, so the bound on the Euclidean action of a D-brane bubble continues to hold. We will add a short clarifying paragraph in the revised §2 that isolates this geometric step and notes that possible extra curvature or H-flux contributions enter with the same sign as in the supersymmetric case once the calibration condition is imposed. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [§5.1] §5.1 (coset and sphere-fibration examples): the claim that these vacua resist all assessed decay channels rests on the calibration bound holding independently of Killing spinors, yet no independent check (e.g., direct computation of the energy functional without SUSY equations) is reported; this is load-bearing for the statement that 'many of these vacua have resisted against all the decay channels we were able to assess.'

    Authors: We agree that a fully independent numerical evaluation of the bubble energy functional would be desirable. For the coset and sphere-fibration geometries, however, such a computation would require solving the complete non-linear equations of motion for the bubble profile without any supersymmetry assumptions, which lies outside the scope of the present work. Our assessment instead uses the calibration bound as a model-independent lower limit on the action; once a closed calibration form is exhibited, the inequality follows regardless of whether Killing spinors exist. In the revised manuscript we will insert a brief remark in §5.1 that makes this reliance explicit and identifies a direct energy-functional check as an interesting direction for future study. revision: partial

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No circularity: calibration bounds applied via explicit geometric checks on non-SUSY examples

full rationale

The paper extends standard calibrated-geometry inequalities to non-supersymmetric AdS4 and AdS5 solutions by direct examination of coset spaces, sphere fibrations, and Kähler-Einstein manifolds. These bounds are invoked as external geometric facts (independent of the present vacuum equations) and then verified case-by-case against possible D-brane bubble channels. No parameter is fitted to the target stability result and then relabeled as a prediction; no load-bearing step reduces to a self-citation chain whose justification is internal to the authors' prior work; and the central claim remains falsifiable by explicit energy computations on the listed manifolds. The derivation is therefore self-contained against external geometric benchmarks.

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Relies on standard type II supergravity axioms, calibration definitions from prior SUSY literature, and geometric properties of the examined manifolds.

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  • domain assumption Calibrations provide lower bounds on D-brane energies in the given backgrounds
    Invoked to extend stability from SUSY to non-SUSY cases.

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