Singularity Resolution in Gauged Supergravity and Conifold Unification

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel approach using gauged supergravity to resolve conifold singularities, offering a unified framework for smoothing out singularities in gravity duals of supersymmetric gauge theories.

Contribution

It introduces a new prescription for twisting in gauged supergravity to effectively resolve conifold singularities in gravity duals.

Findings

Gauged supergravity can be used to smooth out conifold singularities.

A novel twisting prescription is proposed for singularity resolution.

Unified picture for conifold singularity resolution is developed.

Abstract

We obtain a unified picture for the conifold singularity resolution. We propose that gauged supergravity, through a novel prescription for the twisting, provides an appropriate framework to smooth out singularities in the context of gravity duals of supersymmetric gauge theories.