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We consider known examples of non-supersymmetric AdS7 and AdS4 solutions arising from compactifications of massive type IIA supergravity and study their stability, taking into account the coupling between closed- and open-string sector excitations. Generically, open strings are found to develop modes with masses below the Breitenlohner-Freedman (BF) bound. We comment on the relation with the Weak Gravity Conjecture, and how this analysis may play an important role in examining the validity of non-supersymmetric constructions in string theory.
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Danielsson, U.H., Dibitetto, G. & Vargas, S.C. A swamp of non-SUSY vacua. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 152 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2017)152
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