Orientiholes: black hole technology applied to flux vacua 
			 Mboyo Esole
				Harvard
			
			Jeudi 26/03/2009, 11:00
			Salle Claude Itzykson, Bât. 774, Orme des Merisiers
			By T-dualizing space-filling D-branes, we obtain black hole bound states living
in a universe with a gauged spatial reflection symmetry. We call these objects
"orientiholes". The gravitational entropy of orientihole configurations
provides an  estimate of the number of vacua in various sectors of the IIB
landscape. Basic physical properties of orientiholes  provide  a useful
alternative picture  on a number of issues arising in D-brane model building.
More generally, we give orientihole generalizations of recently derived wall
crossing formulae, and conjecture a relation to the topological string
analogous to the OSV conjecture, but with a linear rather than a quadratic
identification of partition functions.