35 citations · 78 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
hep-th2007★ 35 cited
Conifolds and Geometric Transitions
Rhiannon Gwyn, Anke Knauf
Conifold geometries have recieved a lot of attention in string theory and string-inspired cosmology recently, in particular the Klebanov-Strassler background that is known as the "…
hep-th2007★ 24 cited
Lumps in the throat
Keshav Dasgupta, Hassan Firouzjahi, Rhiannon Gwyn
We study classical lump solutions in a warped throat where brane inflation takes place. Some of the solitonic or lump solutions that we study here are the (p,q) cosmic strings and…
hep-th2006★ 19 cited
Dipole-Deformed Bound States and Heterotic Kodaira Surfaces
Keshav Dasgupta, Josh Guffin, Rhiannon Gwyn +1
We study a particular N = 1 confining gauge theory with fundamental flavors realised as seven branes in the background of wrapped five branes on a rigid two-cycle of a non-trivial…