nLab spindle orbifold

Idea

By spindles one refers to 2-dimensional orbifolds which look like a 2-sphere but with a pair of antipodal points replaced by conical orbi-singularities.

Related entries

• pillowcase orbifold

• teardrop orbifold?

References

General

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In string theory

On supergravity KK-compactified (and branes wrapped) on spindle orbifolds:

• Pietro Ferrero, Jerome P. Gauntlett, Juan Manuel Pérez Ipiña, Dario Martelli, James Sparks, D3-branes wrapped on a spindle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 111601 (2021) [arXiv:2204.02990, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.111601]

• Pietro Ferrero, Jerome P. Gauntlett, Dario Martelli, James Sparks, M5-branes wrapped on a spindle, J. High Energ. Phys. 2021 2 (2021)

  [arXiv:2105.13344, doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2021)002] ]

• Federico Faedo, Dario Martelli, D4-branes wrapped on a spindle, J. High Energ. Phys. 2022 101 (2022) [arXiv:2111.13660, doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2022)10]

• Christopher Couzens, A tale of (M)2 twists, J. High Energ. Phys. 2022 78 (2022) [arXiv:2112.04462, doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2022)078]

• K. C. Matthew Cheung, Jacob H. T. Fry, Jerome P. Gauntlett, James Sparks, M5-branes wrapped on four-dimensional orbifolds, J. High Energ. Phys. 2022 82 (2022) [arXiv:2204.02990, doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2022)082]