Crystal Melting and Black Holes

Details Crystal Melting and Black Holes Crystal Melting and Black Holes

2006-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610005v1

JHEP0709:011,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

43 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/011

It has recently been shown that the statistical mechanics of crystal melting maps to A-model topological string amplitudes on non-compact Calabi-Yau spaces. In this note we establish a one to one correspondence between two and three dimensional crystal melting configurations and certain BPS black holes given by branes wrapping collapsed cycles on the orbifolds C^2/Z_n and C^3/Z_n x Z_n in the large n limit. The ranks of gauge groups in the associated gauged quiver quantum mechanics determine the profiles of crystal melting configurations and the process of melting maps to flop transitions which leave the background Calabi-Yau invariant. We explain the connection between these two realizations of crystal melting and speculate on the underlying physical meaning.

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