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Orientifolds and duality cascades: confinement before the wall

par Argurio, Riccardo ;Bertolini, Matteo
Référence The Journal of high energy physics, 2018, 2, 149
Publication Publié, 2018-02

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We consider D-branes at orientifold singularities and discuss two properties of the corresponding low energy four-dimensional effective theories which are not shared, generically, by other Calabi-Yau singularities. The first property is that duality cascades are finite and, unlike ordinary ones, do not require an infinite number of degrees of freedom to be UV-completed. The second is that orientifolds tend to stabilize runaway directions. These two properties can have interesting implications and widen in an intriguing way the variety of gauge theories one can describe using D-branes.