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hep-th1999★ 137 cited
Supersymmetric Three-cycles and (Super)symmetry Breaking
Shamit Kachru, John McGreevy
We describe physical phenomena associated with a class of transitions that occur in the study of supersymmetric three-cycles in Calabi-Yau threefolds. The transitions in question o…
hep-th1999★ 47 cited
Tension is Dimension
J. A. Harvey, S. Kachru, G. Moore +1
We propose a simple universal formula for the tension of a D-brane in terms of a regularized dimension of the associated conformal field theory statespace.
hep-th1999★ 27 cited
Orientifolds, RG Flows, and Closed String Tachyons
Shamit Kachru, Jason Kumar, Eva Silverstein
We discuss the fate of certain tachyonic closed string theories from two perspectives. In both cases our approach involves studying directly configurations with finite negative tre…