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Wormholes in Maximal Supergravity
Aaron Bergman, Jacques Distler
In this brief note, we reconsider the problem of finding Euclidean wormhole solutions to maximal supergravity in d dimensions. We find that such solutions exists for all d less tha…
Random Polynomials and the Friendly Landscape
Jacques Distler, Uday Varadarajan
In hep-th/0501082, a field theoretic ``toy model'' for the Landscape was proposed. We show that the considerations of that paper carry through to realistic effective Lagrangians, s…
1+1 Dimensional Critical String Theory and Holography
Aaron Bergman, Jacques Distler, Uday Varadarajan
In hep-th/0310120, Goheer, Kleban and Susskind argued that the holographic principle is inconsistent with the existence of stable, Lorentz invariant, 1+1 dimensional compactificati…
D-Brane Monodromies, Derived Categories and Boundary Linear Sigma Models
Jacques Distler, Hans Jockers, Hyukjae Park
An important subclass of D-branes on a Calabi-Yau manifold, X, are in 1-1 correspondence with objects in D(X), the derived category of coherent sheaves on X. We study the action of…
Return of the Torsion D-Branes
Ilka Brunner, Jacques Distler, Rahul Mahajan
We study D-branes on Calabi-Yau manifolds, carrying charges which are torsion elements of the K-theory. Interesting physics ensues when we follow these branes into nongeometrical p…
Softly broken N=2 QCD
L. Alvarez-Gaume, M. Marino
We analyze the possible soft breaking of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with and without matter flavour preserving the analyticity properties of the Seiberg-Witten solution…