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Publications [#243265] of Paul S. Aspinwall

Papers Published

  1. Aspinwall, PS, Exoflops in two dimensions, Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2015 no. 7 (July, 2015), Springer Nature [arXiv:1412.0612], [doi]
    (last updated on 2025/03/30)

    Abstract:
    Abstract: An exoflop occurs in the gauged linear σ-model by varying the Kähler form so that a subspace appears to shrink to a point and then reemerge “outside” the original manifold. This occurs for K3 surfaces where a rational curve is “flopped” from inside to outside the K3 surface. We see that whether a rational curve contracts to an orbifold phase or an exoflop depends on whether this curve is a line or conic. We study how the D-brane category of the smooth K3 surface is described by the exoflop and, in particular, find the location of a massless D-brane in the exoflop limit. We relate exoflops to noncommutative resolutions.

 

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