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We analyze the space of linearized non-supersymmetric deformations around a IIA solution found by Cvetič, Gibbons, Lü and Pope (CGLP) in hep-th/0101096. We impose boundary conditions aimed at singling out among those perturbations the ones describing the backreaction of anti-D2 branes on the CGLP background. The corresponding supergravity solution is a would-be dual to a metastable supersymmetry-breaking state. However, it turns out that this candidate bulk solution is inevitably riddled with IR divergences of its flux densities and action, whose physical meaning and implications for models of string cosmology call for further investigation.
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Giecold, G., Goi, E. & Orsi, F. Assessing a candidate IIA dual to metastable supersymmetry-breaking. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 19 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2012)019
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