Orientifolds of Warped Throats from Toric Calabi-Yau Singularities

TL;DR

This paper analyzes orientifolds of D3-branes at toric Calabi-Yau singularities using dimer diagrams, characterizing their deformations and constructing holographic duals with warped throats and orientifold planes.

Contribution

It provides a systematic construction of orientifold models with fixed lines or points, including those relevant for de Sitter uplift and supersymmetry breaking.

Findings

Classified orientifold quotients with fixed lines or points.

Described deformation behavior via zig-zag paths.

Constructed holographic duals with warped throats and orientifolds.

Abstract

We study the complex deformations of orientifolds of D3-branes at toric CY singularities, using their description in terms of dimer diagrams. We describe orientifold quotients that have fixed lines or fixed points in the dimer, and characterize the possibilities to deform them in terms of the behaviour of zig-zag paths under the orientifold symmetry. The resulting models are holographic duals to warped throats with orientifold planes. Our systematic construction provides a general class of configurations which includes models recently appeared in the context of de Sitter uplift by nilpotent goldstino or dynamical supersymmetry breaking.