Description
Among the various corners of the string landscape frozen singularities belong to the less well-explored backgrounds. The central example of frozen ADE singularities, in M-theory, exhibit challenges reminiscent to those of RR-backgrounds in type II string theory. For these reasons much analysis in the literature has focussed on mappings to alternative duality frames where these challenges are recast in more tractable form. In this talk we aim to describe freezing directly in the fluxed backgrounds, and characterize frozen theories as confined phases of unfrozen theories.