Geometric Metastability, Quivers and Holography

Understand

We use large N duality to study brane/anti-brane configurations on a class of Calabi-Yau manifolds.

• With only branes present, the Calabi-Yau manifolds in question give rise to N=2 ADE quiver theories deformed by superpotential terms.
• We show that the large N duality conjecture of hep-th/0610249 reproduces correctly the known qualitative features of the brane/anti-brane physics.
• In the supersymmetric case, the gauge theories have Seiberg dualities which are represented as flops in the geometry.