On geometric transitions in string compactifications

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/6/013MaRDI QIDQ4660294zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Belhaj

Publication date 21 March 2005

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0406254

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We reconsider the study of the geometric transitions and brane/flux dualities in various dimensions. We first give toric interpretations of the topology changing transitions in the Calabi-Yau conifold and the $Spin(7)$ manifold. The latter, for instance, can be viewed as three intersecting Calabi-Yau conifolds according to $c{p}^2$ toric graph. Orbifolds of such geometries are given in terms of del Pezzo complex surfaces. Second we propose a four-dimensional F-theory interpretation of type IIB geometric transitions on the Calabi-Yau conifold. This gives a dual description of the M-theory flop in terms of toric mirror symmetry. In two dimensions, we study the geometric transition in a singular $Spin(7)$ manifold constructed as a cone on SU(3)/U(1). In particular, we discuss brane/flux duality in such a compactification in both type IIA and type IIB superstrings. These examples preserve one supercharge and so have $calN=1/2$ supersymmetry in two dimensions. Then, an interpretation in terms of F-theory is given.

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