The deformed conifold as a geometry on the space of unit charge CP1 lumps

The strong structural similarity between the deformed conifold of Candelas and de la Ossa (a noncompact Calabi–Yau manifold) and the moduli space of unit charge CP1 lumps equipped with its L2 metric is pointed out. This allows one to reinterpret certain recent results on D3 branes in terms of lump dynamics, and to deduce certain curvature properties of the deformed conifold.