N-ification of forces: A holographic perspective on D-brane model building

Sebastin Franco, Diego Rodríguez-Gómez, Herman Verlinde

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Abstract

We study geometric aspects of extensions of the supersymmetric standard model that exhibit a periodic duality cascade. Via the holographic correspondence, the growth of the gauge group rank towards the UV is interpreted as a gradual decompactification transition. We show that this class of models typically develop a duality wall in the UV, and present an efficient method for estimating the hierarchy between the on-set of the cascade and the formation of the wall. As an illustrative example, we study the model introduced by Cascales, Saad and Uranga in [14], which has an known geometric realization in terms of D-branes on an SPP/ℤ 3 singularity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number030
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2009
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Keywords

  • Strings and branes phenomenology

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