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Anti-D3 branes at the bottom of warped throats, commonly used to uplift the cosmological constant in String-Theory de Sitter proposals, source a plethora of supersymmetry-breaking fluxes, that can interact nontrivially with other ingredients of the flux compactification. In this paper we perform a complex-structure decomposition of these fluxes, and compute the effect of the (0,3) flux component on the stabilization of Kähler moduli via D7-branes gaugino condensation. This allows us to obtain a new constraint on the validity of this stabilization mechanism. This effect does not appear hard to satisfy in de Sitter construction proposals that use long warped throats, but may be problematic in proposals where the warping is small.
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We would like to thank Veronica Collazuol, Nicolás Kovensky, Severin Lüst and Salvatore Raucci for useful discussions. This work was supported in part by the ERC Grants 772408 “Stringlandscape” and 787320 “QBH Structure”, and by the John Templeton Foundation grant 61149.
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Bena, I., Dudaş, E., Graña, M. et al. \( \overline{\textrm{D}3} \)-branes and gaugino condensation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 19 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2023)019
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