activity
20242026
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7 papers

hep-th2026

Moduli Stabilisation for ADD and the Dark Dimension Scenario

Andreas P. Braun, Michele Cicoli, Riccardo Milioli +1

We provide a moduli stabilisation mechanism for realising anisotropic string compactifications with one or two large extra dimensions, corresponding to the ADD and Dark Dimension s…

hep-th2026

A class of half-BPS boundary conditions for circular quivers

Davide Bason, Roberto Valandro

We study a string-motivated class of -BPS boundary conditions for 4d circular quiver gauge theories, engineered by D4-branes suspended between NS…

hep-th2026

D2-brane probes of non-toric cDV threefolds via monopole superpotentials

Andrés Collinucci, Marina Moleti, Roberto Valandro

We develop a framework to construct worldvolume gauge theories on D2-branes probing compound Du Val (cDV) Calabi-Yau threefold singularities. By viewing these singularities as ADE…

hep-th2025

Non-toric 5d SCFTs from Reid's Pagoda

Andrés Collinucci, Fabrizio Del Monte, Mario De Marco +2

We construct new families of non-toric 5d SCFTs via abelian orbifolds of the Reid Pagoda, including a surprising infinite family of rank-1 theories, that evade all known classifica…

hep-th2025

BCFT One-point Functions of Coulomb Branch Operators

Davide Bason, Lorenzo Di Pietro, Roberto Valandro +1

We show that supersymmetry can be used to compute the BCFT one-point function coefficients for chiral primary operators, in 4d SCFTs with -BPS boundary…

hep-th2025

M-theory geometric engineering for rank-0 3d theories

Andrea Sangiovanni, Roberto Valandro

M-theory geometric engineering on non-compact Calabi-Yau fourfolds (CY4) produces 3d theories with 4 supercharges. Carefully establishing a dictionary between the geometry of the C…