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Title: The Octagon at large M
A bstract Recently, the first instance of a model of D-branes at Calabi-Yau singularities where supersymmetry is broken dynamically into stable vacua has been proposed. This construction was based on a system of N regular and M = 1 fractional branes placed at the tip of the so-called (orientifolded) Octagon singularity. In this paper we show that this model admits a large M generalization, having the same low energy effective dynamics. This opens up the possibility that the effect on geometry is smooth, and amenable to describing the gauge theory all along the RG flow, including the deep IR, in terms of a weakly coupled gravity dual background. The relevance of this result in the wider context of the string landscape and the Swampland program is also discussed.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1820721 1854179 2112729
PAR ID:
10387020
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume:
2022
Issue:
11
ISSN:
1029-8479
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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