M-theory compactifications on certain `toric' cones of G₂ holonomy

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/066zbMATH Open1226.81155arXivhep-th/0204249OpenAlexW2128105242MaRDI QIDQ648769FDOQ648769

Authors: Lilia Anguelova, Calin-Iuliu Lazaroiu 

Publication date: 29 November 2011

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop methods to study the singularities of certain $G_2$ cones related to toric hyperkahler spaces and Einstein selfdual orbifolds. This allows us to determine the low energy gauge groups of chiral N=1 compactifications of M-theory on a large family of such backgrounds, which includes the models recently studied by Acharya and Witten. All M-theory compactifications belonging to our family admit a $T^2$ of isometries, and therefore T-dual IIA and IIB descriptions. We argue that reduction through such an isometry leads generically to systems of weakly and strongly coupled IIA 6-branes, T-dual to delocalized type IIB 5-branes. We find a simple criterion for the existence of a `good' isometry which leads to IIA models containing only weakly-coupled D6-branes, and construct examples of such backgrounds. Some of the methods we develop may also apply to different situations, such as the study of certain singularities in the hypermultiplet moduli space of N=2 supergravity in four dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0204249

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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