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We investigate the 3-form singularities that are typical to anti-brane solutions in supergravity and check whether they can be cloaked by a finite temperature horizon. For anti-D3-branes in the Klebanov-Strassler background, this was already shown numerically to be impossible when the branes are partially smeared. In this paper, we present analytic arguments that also localised branes remain with singular 3-form fluxes at both zero and finite temperature. These results may have important, possibly fatal, consequences for constructions of meta-stable de Sitter vacua through uplifting.
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Blåbäck, J., Danielsson, U.H., Junghans, D. et al. Localised anti-branes in non-compact throats at zero and finite T . J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 18 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2015)018
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