The Octagon at large M

Authors

Riccardo Argurio, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Matteo Bertolini, SISSA
Sebastían Franco, CUNY City CollegeFollow
Eduardo García-Valdecasas, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Shani Meynet, Uppsala University
Antoine Pasternak, Stanford University
Valdo Tatitscheff, University of Strasbourg

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

Recently, the first instance of a model of D-branes at Calabi-Yau singularities where supersymmetry is broken dynamically into stable vacua has been proposed. This construction was based on a system of N regular and M = 1 fractional branes placed at the tip of the so-called (orientifolded) Octagon singularity. In this paper we show that this model admits a large M generalization, having the same low energy effective dynamics. This opens up the possibility that the effect on geometry is smooth, and amenable to describing the gauge theory all along the RG flow, including the deep IR, in terms of a weakly coupled gravity dual background. The relevance of this result in the wider context of the string landscape and the Swampland program is also discussed.

Comments

This article was originally published in Journal of High Energy Physics, available at https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2022)114

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