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Branes, Quivers, and the Affine Grassmannian

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-04-07 v2

Abstract

Brane systems provide a large class of gauge theories that arise in string theory. This paper demonstrates how such brane systems fit with a somewhat exotic geometric object, called the affine Grassmannian. This gives a strong motivation to study physical aspects of the affine Grassmannian. Explicit quivers are presented throughout the paper, and a quiver addition algorithm to generate the affine Grassmannian is introduced. An important outcome of this study is a set of quivers for new elementary slices.

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@article{arxiv.2102.06190,
  title  = {Branes, Quivers, and the Affine Grassmannian},
  author = {Antoine Bourget and Julius F. Grimminger and Amihay Hanany and Marcus Sperling and Zhenghao Zhong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.06190},
  year   = {2021}
}