2006/10/31 by Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini, Sebastián Franco +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/083
published as JHEP 0701:083,2007 · 45 pages, 19 figures. v2: comment on stability of dynamical masses and one reference added, typos corrected
openalex publication_date 2007/01/23 · arxiv created 2007/05/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
We engineer a class of quiver gauge theories with several interesting features by studying D-branes at a simple Calabi-Yau singularity. At weak 't Hooft coupling we argue using field theory techniques that these theories admit both supersymmetric vacua and meta-stable non-supersymmetric vacua, though the arguments indicating the existence of the supersymmetry breaking states are not decisive. At strong 't Hooft coupling we find simple candidate gravity dual descriptions for both sets of vacua.