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We use the results of our companion paper arXiv:2502.20444, which explores the equivariant generalization of the constant-map contribution in topological string theory on toric Calabi--Yau manifolds $X$, to establish a holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Luca Cassia , Kiril Hristov

We construct the first known example of a near horizon supergravity solution for a pair of NS5-branes, intersecting on R^{1,3} and localised in all directions except a single transverse circle. We do this by establishing an explicit map…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-25 Jock McOrist , Andrew B. Royston

We propose a relation between the brane configurations consisting of D3-branes and 5-brane webs which realize 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories and quantum curves by focusing on the $S^{3}$ partition functions. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-08 Naotaka Kubo

We provide a classification of half-supersymmetric branes in quarter-maximal supergravity theories with scalars parametrising coset manifolds. Guided by the results previously obtained for the half-maximal theories, we are able to show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Fabio Riccioni , Luca Romano

We give an overview of various composite BPS configurations of string theory and M-theory p-branes represented as classical supergravity solutions. Type II string backgrounds can be obtained by S- and T- dualities from NS-NS string -…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 A. A. Tseytlin

Under heterotic/F-theory duality it was argued that a wide class of heterotic five-branes is mapped into the geometry of an F-theory compactification manifold. In four-dimensional compactifications this identifies a five-brane wrapped on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Thomas W. Grimm , Tae-Won Ha , Albrecht Klemm , Denis Klevers

We study wrapped brane configurations via possible maximally supersymmetric gauged supergravities. First, we construct various supersymmetric wrapped D3 brane configurations from D=5 N=8 SO(6) gauged supergravity. This procedure provides…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Michihiro Naka

We discuss Type IIB 5-brane configurations for 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories with hypermultiplets in the rank-3 antisymmetric representation and with various other hypermultiplets, which flow to a UV fixed point at the infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-24 Hirotaka Hayashi , Sung-Soo Kim , Kimyeong Lee , Futoshi Yagi

Brane Box Models of intersecting NS and D5 branes are mapped to D3 branes at C^3/Gamma orbifold singularities and vise versa, in a setup which gives rise to N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions. The Brane Box Models are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Amihay Hanany , Angel M. Uranga

The effective four-dimensional supergravity of M-theory compactified on the orbifold S^1/Z_2 and a Calabi-Yau threefold includes in general moduli supermultiplets describing massless modes of five-branes. For each brane, one of these fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-03 Luca Carlevaro , Jean-Pierre Derendinger

We investigate the one-parameter Calabi-Yau models and identify families of D5-branes which are associated to lines embedded in these manifolds. The moduli spaces are given by sets of Riemann curves, which form a web whose intersection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-25 Marco Baumgartl , Simon Wood

We study BPS bound states of D0 and D2 branes on a single D6 brane wrapping a Calabi-Yau 3-fold X. When X has no compact 4-cyles, the BPS bound states are organized into a free field Fock space, whose generators correspond to BPS states of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-14 Mina Aganagic , Hirosi Ooguri , Cumrun Vafa , Masahito Yamazaki

A particular two-parameter class of little string theories can be described by $M$ parallel M5-branes probing a transverse affine $A_{N-1}$ singularity. We previously discussed the duality between the theories labelled by $(N,M)$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Stefan Hohenegger , Amer Iqbal , Soo-Jong Rey

In this paper we discuss two aspects of duality transformations on the Neveu-Schwarz (NS) 5-brane solutions in type II and heterotic string theories. First we demonstrate that the non-extremal NS 5-brane background is U-dual to its CGHS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Andreas , G. Curio , D. Lust

We investigate a class of N=4 quiver Chern-Simons theories and their gravity duals. We define the group of fractional D3-brane charges in a type IIB brane setup with taking account of D3-brane creation due to Hanany-Witten effect, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-11 Yosuke Imamura , Shuichi Yokoyama

We continue to study 5d N=1 supersymmetric field theories and their compactifications on a circle through brane configurations. We develop a model, which we call (p,q) Webs, which enables simple geometrical computations to reproduce the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Ofer Aharony , Amihay Hanany , Barak Kol

Large classes of warped AdS$_6$ solutions were constructed recently in Type IIB supergravity, and identified as holographic duals for five-dimensional superconformal field theories realized by $(p,q)$ five-brane webs. We confront…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 Martin Fluder , Christoph F. Uhlemann

We study the large $N$ expansion of twisted partition functions of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories arising from $N$ M5-branes wrapped on a hyperbolic 3-manifold, $M_3$. Via the 3d-3d correspondence, the partition functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-20 Dongmin Gang , Nakwoo Kim , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas

We study large N dualities for a general class of N=1 theories realized on type IIB D5 branes wrapping 2-cycles of local Calabi-Yau threefolds or as effective field theories on D4 branes in type IIA brane configurations. We completely solve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kyungho Oh , Radu Tatar

On the world-volume of an $M$-theory five-brane propagates a two-form with self-dual field strength. As this field is non-Lagrangian, there is no obvious framework for determining its partition function. An analogous problem exists in Type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Edward Witten