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D-particles on T^4/Z_n orbifolds and their resolutions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We formulate the effective field theory of a D-particle on orbifolds of T4T^4 by a cyclic group as a gauge theory in a VV-bundle over the dual orbifold. We argue that this theory admits Fayet-Iliopoulos terms analogous to those present in the case of noncompact orbifolds. In the n=2n=2 case, we present some evidence that turning on such terms resolves the orbifold singularities and may lead to a K3K3 surface realized as a blow up of the fixed points of the cyclic group action.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9807040,
  title  = {D-particles on T^4/Z_n orbifolds and their resolutions},
  author = {B. R. Greene and C. I. Lazaroiu and Piljin Yi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9807040},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

34 pages, 3 figures; very minor typos corrected, 2 references added