Geometrically induced metastability and holography

Journal Article · Mon Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2006 · Nuclear Physics B

OSTI ID:934706

Aganagic, Mina; Aganagic, Mina; Beem, Christopher; Seo, Jihye; Vafa, Cumrun

We construct metastable configurations of branes and anti-branes wrapping 2-spheres inside local Calabi-Yau manifolds and study their large N duals. These duals are Calabi-Yau manifolds in which the wrapped 2-spheres have been replaced by 3-spheres with flux through them, and supersymmetry is spontaneously broken. The geometry of the non-supersymmetric vacuum is exactly calculable to all orders of the't Hooft parameter, and to the leading order in 1/N. The computation utilizes the same matrix model techniques that were used in the supersymmetric context. This provides a novel mechanism for breaking supersymmetry in the context of flux compactifications.

• Research Organization: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: Physics Division
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 934706
• Report Number(s): LBNL-413E
• Journal Information: Nuclear Physics B, Journal Name: Nuclear Physics B Vol. 789
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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SUPERSYMMETRY
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flux
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U(N)
holography
matrix model
membrane model
D-brane
membrane model
p-brane
stability
supersymmetry
symmetry breaking
symmetry
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