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Closed strings from nothing
Matthew Kleban, Albion Lawrence, Stephen Shenker
We study the physics of open strings in bosonic and type II string theories in the presence of unstable D-branes. When the potential energy of the open string tachyon is at its min…
Mirror symmetry for open strings
Shamit Kachru, Sheldon Katz, Albion Lawrence +1
We discuss the generation of superpotentials in four-dimensional, N = 1 supersymmetric field theories arising from type IIA D6-branes wrapped on supersymmetric three-cycles of a Ca…
Open string instantons and superpotentials
Shamit Kachru, Sheldon Katz, Albion Lawrence +1
We study the F-terms in N=1 supersymmetric, d=4 gauge theories arising from D(p+3)-branes wrapping supersymmetric p-cycles in a Calabi-Yau threefold. If p is even the spectrum and…