Brane gaugino condensate in 10d

Understand

We analyze the structure of gaugino interactions on D7-branes from a 10d perspective.

• This is essential if one wants to lift the standard 4d approach to type IIB moduli stabilization to 10d.
• In particular, a 10d picture has recently been used to raise concerns about the KKLT proposal for constructing de Sitter vacua, and to lend support to swampland conjectures against de Sitter.
• However, the analyses of brane gaugino condensation so far are plagued by UV divergences and do not include local 4-fermion terms.