Research Interest of Joseph Marsano

      Publication 1: Two loop partition function for large N pure Yang-Mills theory on a small three-sphere (URL)
      Publication 2: A DK Phase Transition in q-Deformed Yang-Mills on S^2 and Topological Strings (URL)
      Publication 3: Minisuperspace Quantization of "Bubbling AdS" and Free Fermion Droplets (URL)

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Statement of Interest:



  I am currently interested in metastable nonsupersymmetric
  configurations in string theory and, in particular, the use of
  M-theory as a tool to probe them.  For example, in a paper to appear
  within the next few days, I have studied brane/antibrane
  configurations in type IIA in this manner with K Papadodimas and M
  Shigemori.  At weak coupling we reproduce the results expected from
  large N duality while at strong coupling we find that the M5 curve
  exhibits interesting new features.

I am also interested in possible applications of such constructions to
model building.