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Supersymmetric QCD vacua and geometrical engineering

Radu Tatar^* and Ben Wetenhall^†

Division of Theoretical Physics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, England, United Kingdom

^*rtatar@liverpool.ac.uk,
^†benweten@liv.ac.uk

Phys. Rev. D 77, 046007 – Published 26 February, 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.046007

Abstract

We consider the geometrical engineering constructions for the $N = 1$ supersymmetric QCD vacua recently proposed by Giveon and Kutasov. After 1 T-duality, the geometries with wrapped D5 branes become $N = 1$ brane configurations with NS branes and D4 branes. The field theories encoded by the geometries contain extra massive adjoint fields for the flavor group. After performing a flop, the geometries contain branes, antibranes and branes wrapped on nonholomorphic cycles. The various tachyon condensations between pairs of wrapped D5 branes and anti-D5 branes together with deformations of the cycles give rise to a variety of supersymmetric and metastable nonsupersymmetric vacua.

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