Warping and Supersymmetry Breaking

TL;DR

This paper investigates how anti-self-dual flux causes supersymmetry breaking in the deformed conifold, revealing a warp factor effect that influences the breaking scale and raises questions about gauge theory interpretations.

Contribution

It explicitly computes the warp-modified moduli space metric, uncovering a divergence that impacts the supersymmetry breaking scale in the dual theory.

Findings

Warp factor significantly affects supersymmetry breaking scale

New divergence term in moduli space metric at the conifold point

Raises puzzles about gauge theory interpretation

Abstract

We analyze supersymmetry breaking by anti-self-dual flux in the deformed conifold. This theory has been argued to be a dual realization of susy breaking by antibranes. As such, one might expect it to lead to a hierarchically small breaking scale, but only if the warp factor is taken into account. We verify this by explicitly computing the warp-modified moduli space metric. This leads to a new term, with a power-like divergence at the conifold point, which lowers the breaking scale. We finally point out various puzzles regarding the gauge theory interpretation of these results.