The Octagon and the non-supersymmetric string landscape

Vacua with Small Flux Superpotential

“…If the quantized fluxes threading the A-cycle and B-cycle of a conifold in such a vacuum are sufficiently large, then the conifold region is accurately described by the warped deformed conifold supergravity solution found by Klebanov and Strassler [6], and can serve as a setting for metastable supersymmetry breaking by anti-D3-branes [24]. In the opposite regime of small 't Hooft coupling, the conifold region is accurately described by a cascading gauge theory that potentially has a metastable supersymmetry-breaking state -gauge theory vacua of this sort have been analyzed in [32][33][34][35][36].…”

Winding uplifts and the challenges of weak and strong SUSY breaking in AdS

“…In 4d supergravity language, such effects are classified as F -term or D-term uplifts (see e.g. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] and [19][20][21][22][23][24][25] respectively). All known models share a certain degree of complexity, which has lead to fundamental criticism [26] and the proposal of corresponding no-go theorems [27][28][29].…”

Dimers in a bottle

“…only on the local features of the compactification [16][17][18]. More recently, warped throats have been used in trying to uplift to de Sitter vacua [19,20] and in the search for SUSY breaking vacua in quantum gravity [11,12,[21][22][23][24][25].…”