Bipartite field theories from D-branes

Franco, Sebastián; Uranga, Angel

Abstract

We develop tools for determining the gauge theory resulting from a configuration of Type IIB D3-branes probing a non-compact, toric Calabi-Yau 3-fold, in the presence of additional flavor D7-branes with general embeddings. Two main ingredients of our approach are dimer models and mirror symmetry. D7-branes with general embeddings are obtained by recombination of elementary D7-brane constituents. These tools are then used to engineer a large set of Bipartite Field Theories, a class of 4d, N = 1 quantum field theories defined by bipartite graphs on bordered Riemann surfaces. Several explicit examples, including infinite families of models, associated to both planar and non-planar graphs are presented.

Citation

Franco, S., & Uranga, A. (2014). Bipartite field theories from D-branes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(4), Article 161. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282014%29161

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 27, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Apr 28, 2014
• Publication Date: Apr 28, 2014
• Deposit Date: Apr 9, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 10, 2019
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Print ISSN: 1126-6708
• Electronic ISSN: 1029-8479
• Publisher: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2014
• Issue: 4
• Article Number: 161
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282014%29161
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1304425