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Towards New Classes of Flux Compactifications
Paul Franche
We derive novel solutions of flux compactification with D7-branes on the resolved conifold in type IIB String Theory and later extend this solution to allow for non-zero temperatur…
Non-Extremality, Chemical Potential and the Infrared limit of Large N Thermal QCD
Mohammed Mia, Fang Chen, Keshav Dasgupta +2
Non-extremal solution with warped resolved-deformed conifold background is important to study the infrared limit of large N thermal QCD. Earlier works in this direction have not ta…
Toward the Gravity Dual of Heterotic Small Instantons
Fang Chen, Keshav Dasgupta, Paul Franche +1
The question of what happens when the heterotic SO(32) instanton becomes small was answered sometime back by Witten. The heterotic theory develops an enhanced Sp(2k) gauge symmetry…
Supersymmetric Configurations, Geometric Transitions and New Non-Kahler Manifolds
Fang Chen, Keshav Dasgupta, Paul Franche +2
We give a detailed derivation of a supersymmetric configuration of wrapped D5-branes on a two-cycle of a warped resolved conifold. Our analysis reveals that the resolved conifold s…
Initial Conditions for Non-Canonical Inflation
Paul Franche, Rhiannon Gwyn, Bret Underwood +1
We investigate the dynamics of homogeneous phase space for single-field models of inflation. Inflationary trajectories are formally attractors in phase space, but since in practice…
Attractive Lagrangians for Noncanonical Inflation
Paul Franche, Rhiannon Gwyn, Bret Underwood +1
Treating inflation as an effective theory, we expect the effective Lagrangian to contain higher-dimensional kinetic operators suppressed by the scale of UV physics. When these oper…
Reduction of the N=8 BLG and N=6 BL Theories to 2D Effective Field Theories
Paul Franche
Starting from the three dimensional N=8 BLG and N=6 BL theories with CS level k=1, a dimensional reduction is performed on the M2-branes worldvolume. The IR limit of these 2D EFTs…
D-terms on the resolved conifold
Keshav Dasgupta, Paul Franche, Anke Knauf +1
We derive a novel deformation of the warped resolved conifold background with supersymmetry breaking ISD (1,2) fluxes by adding D7-branes to this type IIB theory. We find spontaneo…