Geometric transitions and D-term SUSY breaking

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2007.11.033zbMATH Open1219.81205arXiv0711.0385OpenAlexW2074947919MaRDI QIDQ952297FDOQ952297

Authors: Mina Aganagic, Christopher Beem 

Publication date: 12 November 2008

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a new way of using geometric transitions to study metastable vacua in string theory and certain confining gauge theories. The gauge theories in question are N=2 supersymmetric theories deformed to N=1 by superpotential terms. We first geometrically engineer supersymmetry-breaking vacua by wrapping D5 branes on rigid 2-cycles in noncompact Calabi-Yau geometries, such that the central charges of the branes are misaligned. In a limit of slightly misaligned charges, this has a gauge theory description, where supersymmetry is broken by Fayet-Iliopoulos D-terms. Geometric transitions relate these configurations to dual Calabi-Yaus with fluxes, where H_RR, H_NS and dJ are all nonvanishing. We argue that the dual geometry can be effectively used to study the resulting non-supersymmetric, confining vacua.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0385

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zbMATH Keywords

geometric transitionsconifoldSUSY breakingD-termFayet-Illiopoulosgeometric fluxes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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