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Bipartite Field Theories from D-Branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-16 v1

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.

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@article{arxiv.1306.6331,
  title  = {Bipartite Field Theories from D-Branes},
  author = {Sebastian Franco and Angel Uranga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.6331},
  year   = {2015}
}

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41 pages, 30 figures

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