57 citations · 98 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
hep-ph2007★ 23 cited
Cascading to the MSSM
Jonathan J. Heckman, Cumrun Vafa, Herman Verlinde +1
The MSSM can arise as an orientifold of a pyramid-like quiver in the context of intersecting D-branes. Here we consider quiver realizations of the MSSM which can emerge at the bott…
hep-th2007★ 18 cited
Geometrically Induced Phase Transitions at Large N
Jonathan J. Heckman, Cumrun Vafa
Utilizing the large N dual description of a metastable system of branes and anti-branes wrapping rigid homologous S^2's in a non-compact Calabi-Yau threefold, we study phase transi…
hep-th2007★ 57 cited
Phase Structure of a Brane/Anti-Brane System at Large N
Jonathan J. Heckman, Jihye Seo, Cumrun Vafa
We further analyze a class of recently studied metastable string vacua obtained by wrapping D5-branes and anti-D5-branes over rigid homologous S^2's of a non-compact Calabi-Yau thr…