Orientifold in conifold and quantum deformation

Changhyun Ahn, Soonkeon Nam, Sang Jin Sin

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Abstract

We describe orientifold operation defining O3 plane in the conifold background by deriving it from that of O4 plane in the Type IIA brane construction by T-duality. We find that both O3+ and O3- are at the tip of the cone so that there is no net untwisted RR charge. RG analysis shows that we need two 'fractional' branes for the conformal invariance in orientifolded conifold. We argue that the gravity solution is the same as Klebanov and Tseytlin since SUGRA cannot distinguish the orientifolds and D branes in this case. We describe the duality cascade as well as the quantum deformation of the moduli space of the field theory in the presence of the orientifold. The finitely resolved conifold does not allow the orientifold, while deformed conifold leaves us an unresolved issue on supersymmetry.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)397-405
Number of pages9
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume517
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Oct 2001

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