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We study supersymmetric AdS7 vacua of massive type IIA string theory, which were argued to describe the near-horizon limit of NS5/D6/D8-brane intersections and to be holographically dual to 6D (1,0) theories. We show, for the case without D8-brane charges, that such vacua do not admit any supersymmetry-breaking deformations. Our result implies that the dual (1, 0) theories do not have a conformal manifold, thus extending previously known results for supersymmetric deformations. It is also in line with the recent conjecture that non-supersymmetric AdS vacua are in the swampland.
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Junghans, D., Zagermann, M. On SUSY-breaking moduli spaces of AdS7 vacua and 6D SCFTs. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 102 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2019)102
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