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Dual Giant Gravitons in Sasaki-Einstein Backgrounds
Dario Martelli, James Sparks
We study the dynamics of a BPS D3-brane wrapped on a three-sphere in AdS_5 x L, a so-called dual giant graviton, where L is a Sasakian five-manifold. The phase space of these confi…
Obstructions to the Existence of Sasaki-Einstein Metrics
Jerome P. Gauntlett, Dario Martelli, James Sparks +1
We describe two simple obstructions to the existence of Ricci-flat Kahler cone metrics on isolated Gorenstein singularities or, equivalently, to the existence of Sasaki-Einstein me…
Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds and Volume Minimisation
Dario Martelli, James Sparks, Shing-Tung Yau
We study a variational problem whose critical point determines the Reeb vector field for a Sasaki-Einstein manifold. This extends our previous work on Sasakian geometry by lifting…