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Fluxes can decay via the nucleation of Brown-Teitelboim bubbles, but when the decaying fluxes induce D-brane charges this process must be accompanied with an annihilation of D-branes. This occurs via dynamics inside the bubble wall as was well described for \( \overline{\mathrm{D}3} \) branes annihilating against 3-form fluxes. In this paper we extend this to the other \( \overline{\mathrm{D}p} \) branes with p smaller than seven. Generically there are two decay channels: one for the RR flux and one for the NSNS flux. The RR channel is accompanied by brane annihilation that can be understood from the \( \overline{\mathrm{D}p} \) branes polarising into D(p + 2) branes, whereas the NSNS channel corresponds to \( \overline{\mathrm{D}p} \) branes polarising into NS5 branes or KK5 branes. We illustrate this with the decay of antibranes probing local toroidal throat geometries obtained from T-duality of the D6 solution in massive type IIA. We show that \( \overline{\mathrm{D}p} \) branes are metastable against annihilation in these backgrounds, at least at the probe level.
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Gautason, F.F., Truijen, B. & Van Riet, T. The many faces of brane-flux annihilation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 152 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2015)152
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