On/off scale separation

Abstract

We discuss minimally supersymmetric AdS3 flux vacua of massive type IIA supergravity on G2-orientifolds. We find that configurations with broken scale-separation can be within finite distance from scale-separated ones, while both remain at large volume, weak coupling and have moduli stabilization. The transition is achieved with the use of a D4-brane modulus, which allows the F4 flux to jump, and has an effective potential always accessible to the three-dimensional low-energy theory. Our analysis further allows us to check the distance conjecture quantitatively, as we can track explicitly the masses of the KK modes.