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Geometric transitions and integrable systems
Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu, Ron Donagi, Robbert Dijkgraaf +2
We consider {\bf B}-model large duality for a new class of noncompact Calabi-Yau spaces modeled on the neighborhood of a ruled surface in a Calabi-Yau threefold. The closed str…
Causal Structure of d=5 Vacua and Axisymmetric Spacetimes
Bartomeu Fiol, Christiaan Hofman, Ernesto Lozano-Tellechea
We study the structure of closed timelike curves (CTCs) for the near horizon limit of the five dimensional BMPV black hole, in its overrotating regime. We argue that Bousso's holog…
Freund-Rubin Revisited
B. S. Acharya, F. Denef, C. Hofman +1
We utilise the duality between M theory and Type IIA string theory to show the existence of Freund-Rubin compactifications of M theory on 7-manifolds with singularities supporting…
Super Yang-Mills With Flavors From Large N_f Matrix Models
Christiaan Hofman
We consider the exact effective superpotential of N=1 U(N_c) super Yang-Mills theory with N_f massive flavors an additional adjoint Higgs field. We use the proposal of Dijkgraaf an…
Topological Open Membranes
Christiaan Hofman, Jae-Suk Park
We study topological open membranes of BF type in a manifest BV formalism. Our main interest is the effect of the bulk deformations on the algebra of boundary operators. This forms…
BV Quantization of Topological Open Membranes
Christiaan Hofman, Jae-Suk Park
We study bulk-boundary correlators in topological open membranes. The basic example is the open membrane with a WZ coupling to a 3-form. We view the bulk interaction as a deformati…