A 4D IIB flux vacuum and supersymmetry breaking. Part II. Bosonic spectrum and stability

Abstract

Abstract We recently constructed type-IIB compactifications to four dimensions depending on a single additional coordinate, where a five-form flux Φ on an internal torus leads to a constant string coupling. Supersymmetry is fully broken when the internal manifold includes a finite interval of length ℓ, which is spanned by a conformal coordinate in a finite range 0 < z < zm. Here we examine the low-lying bosonic spectra and their classical stability, paying special attention to self-adjoint boundary conditions. Special boundary conditions result in the emergence of zero modes, which are determined exactly by first-order equations. The different sectors of the spectrum can be related to Schrödinger operators on a finite interval, characterized by pairs of real constants μ and $$ \overset{\sim }{\mu } $$ μ ~ , with μ equal to 1/3 or 2/3 in all cases and different values of $$ \overset{\sim }{\mu } $$ μ ~ . The potentials behave as $$ \frac{\mu^2-1/4}{z^2} $$ μ 2 − 1 / 4 z 2 and $$ \frac{{\overset{\sim }{\mu}}^2-1/4}{{\left({z}_m-z\right)}^2} $$ μ ~ 2 − 1 / 4 z m − z 2 near the ends and can be closely approximated by exactly solvable trigonometric ones. With vanishing internal momenta, one can thus identify a wide range of boundary conditions granting perturbative stability, despite the intricacies that emerge in some sectors. For the Kaluza-Klein excitations of non-singlet vectors and scalars the Schrödinger systems couple pairs of fields, and the stability regions, which depend on the background, widen as the ratio Φ/ℓ4 decreases.