Research Interest of Joseph Marsano

      Publication 1: Off-shell M5 Brane, Perturbed Seiberg-Witten Theory, and Metastable Vacua (URL)
      Publication 2: Metastable Vacua in Perturbed Seiberg-Witten Theories, Part 2: Fayet-Iliopoulos Terms and Kahler Normal Coordinates (URL)
      Publication 3: Nonsupersymmetric Brane/Antibrane Configurations in Type IIA and M Theory (URL)

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Statement of Interest:


  I am interested in supersymmetry breaking mechanisms in string theory and their application to string phenomenology.  My past work has focused on configurations which are related by dualities to minimal area M5-branes.  This allows several mechanisms to be described by a single framework in which the scalar potential is determined by geometry.  Currently, I am studying more phenomenologically viable models of SUSY-breaking and their realization in string theory, specifically F-theory compactifications.

I am also quite intrigued by the 3-dimensional maximally supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory introduced by Bagger and Lambert as a possible worldvolume description of coincident M2 branes.  Whether or not this theory turns out to be truly relevant for the physics of M2 branes, it is quite interesting nonetheless so I am trying to better understand various aspects of it.