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We construct analytically a perturbative supergravity solution that captures the backreaction of a metastable state of anti-branes in the background of a particular modification of the Klebanov-Strassler throat in a long-wavelength approximation. Our solution, which has no unphysical singularities, describes how non-supersymmetric spherical NS5-branes with dissolved anti-D3 brane charge backreact in a fluxed throat geometry. It supports previous claims that there is a well-behaved supergravity description of the metastable state of wrapped NS5-branes proposed years ago by Kachru, Pearson, and Verlinde.
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Nguyen, N., Niarchos, V. On matched asymptotic expansions of backreacting metastable anti-branes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 55 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2022)055
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