META-STABLE BRANE CONFIGURATIONS, MULTIPLE NS5-BRANES, AND ROTATED D6-BRANES

We construct the type IIA nonsupersymmetric meta-stable brane configurations corresponding to the various N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories. The D6-branes are both displaced and rotated where these deformations are described as the mass term and quartic term for the fundamental flavors, respectively. The multiplicity of the NS5-branes occurs in the superpotential order for adjoint, symmetric, or bifundamental matters. A rich pattern of nonsupersymmetric meta-stable states as well as the supersymmetric stable states is found.