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Conifolds From D-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v2

Abstract

In this note we study the resolution of conifold singularity by D-branes by considering compactification of D-branes on \C3/(Z2×Z2)\C^3/(\Z_2\times\Z_2). The resulting vacuum moduli space of D-branes is a toric variety which turns out to be a resolved conifold, that is a nodal variety in \C4\C^4. This has the implication that all the corresponding phases of Type--II string theory are geometrical and are accessible to the D-branes, since they are related by flops.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9711131,
  title  = {Conifolds From D-branes},
  author = {Subir Mukhopadhyay and Koushik Ray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9711131},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, AMSTEX, Cosmetic changes. Equation numbers and typos corrected and references added. To appear in Phys. Lett. B