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Meta-Stable Brane Configurations by Higher Order Polynomial Superpotential

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-30 v3

Abstract

We construct the type IIA nonsupersymmetric meta-stable brane configuration consisting of (2k+1) NS5-branes and D4-branes where the electric gauge theory superpotential has an order (2k+2) polynomial for the bifundamentals. We find a rich pattern of nonsupersymmetric meta-stable states as well as the supersymmetric stable ones. By adding the orientifold 4-plane to this brane configuration, we also describe the intersecting brane configuration of type IIA string theory corresponding to the meta-stable nonsupersymmetric vacua of corresponding gauge theory.

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@article{arxiv.0802.0044,
  title  = {Meta-Stable Brane Configurations by Higher Order Polynomial Superpotential},
  author = {Changhyun Ahn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0044},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

27pp, 8 figures; some footnotes added; to appear in IJMPA

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