Holographic Evidence for Non-Supersymmetric Conformal Manifolds

Abstract

We provide the first holographic evidence for the existence of a non-supersymmetric conformal manifold arising from exactly marginal but supersymmetry-breaking deformations of a superconformal field theory. In particular, we construct a 2-parameter non-supersymmetric deformation of a supersymmetric AdS vacuum in Type IIB string theory. We prove that the non-supersymmetric vacua are perturbatively stable and also do not suffer from various non-perturbative instabilities. Finally, we argue that diffeomorphism symmetry protects our vacua against higher-derivative string corrections.