The Octagon at large M

Riccardo Argurio , Matteo Bertolini (1, 2) , Sebastián Franco (3) , Eduardo García-Valdecasas (4) , Shani Meynet (5) , Antoine Pasternak (6) , Valdo Tatitscheff (7, 8)

1 SISSA / ISAS - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati / International School for Advanced Studies
2 INFN, Sezione di Trieste - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
3 CUNY - City University of New York [New York]
4 ULB 150 - Physique Théorique et Mathématique [Bruxelles]
5 Uppsala University
6 Stanford University
7 IRMA - Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée
8 Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University

Recently, the first instance of a model of D-branes at Calabi-Yau singularities where supersymmetry is broken dynamically into stable vacua has been proposed. This construction was based on a system of $N$ regular and $M=1$ fractional branes placed at the tip of the so-called (orientifolded) Octagon singularity. In this paper we show that this model admits a large $M$ generalization, having the same low energy effective dynamics. This opens up the possibility that the effect on geometry is smooth, and amenable to describing the gauge theory all along the RG flow, including the deep IR, in terms of a weakly coupled gravity dual background. The relevance of this result in the wider context of the string landscape and the Swampland program is also discussed.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Théorie [hep-th]

Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini, Sebastián Franco, Eduardo García-Valdecasas, Shani Meynet, et al.. The Octagon at large M. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022, 2022 (11), pp.114. ⟨10.1007/JHEP11(2022)114⟩. ⟨hal-03762646⟩