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Gauge theories from D7-branes over vanishing 4-cycles
Sebastian Franco, Gonzalo Torroba
We study quiver gauge theories on D7-branes wrapped over vanishing holomorphic 4-cycles. We investigate how to incorporate O7-planes and/or flavor D7-branes, which are necessary to…
M2-branes on Orbifolds of the Cone over Q^{1,1,1}
Sebastian Franco, Igor R. Klebanov, Diego Rodriguez-Gomez
We study the N=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons quiver gauge theory recently introduced in arXiv:0809.3237 to describe M2-branes on a cone over the well-known Sasaki-Einstein manifold…
Towards M2-brane Theories for Generic Toric Singularities
Sebastian Franco, Amihay Hanany, Jaemo Park +1
We construct several examples of (2+1) dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories, whose moduli space is given by non-compact toric Calabi-Yau four-folds, which are not d…
N-ification of Forces: A Holographic Perspective on D-brane Model Building
Sebastian Franco, Diego Rodriguez-Gomez, Herman Verlinde
We study geometric aspects of extensions of the supersymmetric standard model that exhibit a periodic duality cascade. Via the holographic correspondence, the growth of the gauge g…
Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking
Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini, Sebastian Franco +1
We engineer a class of quiver gauge theories with several interesting features by studying D-branes at a simple Calabi-Yau singularity. At weak 't Hooft coupling we argue using fie…
Non-supersymmetric Meta-stable Vacua from Brane Configurations
Sebastian Franco, Inaki Garcia-Etxebarria, Angel M. Uranga
We construct configurations of NS-, D4-, and D6-branes in type IIA string theory, realizing the recently discussed non-supersymmetric meta-stable minimum of 4d N=1 SU(N_c) super-Ya…