Conifolds from D-branes
Abstract
In this note we study the resolution of conifold singularity by D-branes by considering compactification of D-branes on C3/(Z2xZ2). 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. 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.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- March 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00141-5
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9711131
- Bibcode:
- 1998PhLB..423..247M
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, AMSTEX, Cosmetic changes. Equation numbers and typos corrected and references added. To appear in Phys. Lett. B