2017/11/30 by Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Duality (order theory) #Epistemology #Gauge boson #Gauge theory #Gravitational singularity #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Orientifold #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Property (philosophy) #Pure mathematics #Quantum mechanics #Seiberg duality #Theoretical physics #Variety (cybernetics) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep02(2018)149
32 pages, 8 figures. v2: typos corrected and few clarifications added
openalex publication_date 2018/02/01 · arxiv created 2018/02/21 · arxiv updated 2018/04/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We consider D-branes at orientifold singularities and discuss two properties of the corresponding low energy four-dimensional effective theories which are not shared, generically, by other Calabi-Yau singularities. The first property is that duality cascades are finite and, unlike ordinary ones, do not require an infinite number of degrees of freedom to be UV-completed. The second is that orientifolds tend to stabilize runaway directions. These two properties can have interesting implications and widen in an intriguing way the variety of gauge theories one can describe using D-branes.