English

Chiral flavors and M2-branes at toric CY4 singularities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-30 v3

Abstract

We extend the stringy derivation of N=2 AdS4/CFT3 dualities to cases where the M-theory circle degenerates at complex codimension-two submanifolds of a toric conical CY4. The type IIA backgrounds include D6-branes, and the dual N=2 quiver gauge theories contain chiral flavors. We provide a general recipe to derive the geometric moduli space of flavored versions of Abelian toric quiver gauge theories. The CY4 cone is reproduced thanks to a non-trivial quantum F-term relation between diagonal monopole operators and bifundamental fields. We find new field theory duals to many geometries, including Q111.

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@article{arxiv.0911.4127,
  title  = {Chiral flavors and M2-branes at toric CY4 singularities},
  author = {Francesco Benini and Cyril Closset and Stefano Cremonesi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.4127},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

59 pages, 34 figures; changed notation, typos corrected and references added; minor changes, published version