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arxiv: hep-th/0004095 · v2 · pith:4JJBMUW4new · submitted 2000-04-13 · ✦ hep-th

Branes and Fluxes in D=5 Calabi-Yau Compactifications of M-Theory

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords three-branebranescalabi-yaucompactificationsm-theorypointattractoravoided
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We discuss Poincare three-brane solutions in D=5 M-Theory compactifications on Calabi-Yau (CY) threefolds with G-fluxes. We show that the vector moduli freeze at an attractor point. In the case with background flux only, the spacetime geometry contains a zero volume singularity with the three-brane and the CY space shrinking simultaneously to a point. This problem can be avoided by including explicit three-brane sources. We consider two cases in detail: a single brane and, when the transverse dimension is compactified on a circle, a pair of branes with opposite tensions.

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