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Consistently melting crystals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-05 v1

Abstract

Recently Ooguri and Yamazaki proposed a statistical model of melting crystals to count BPS bound states of certain D-brane configurations on toric Calabi--Yau manifolds [arXiv:0811.2801]. This construction relied on a set of consistency conditions on the corresponding brane tiling, and in this note I show that these conditions are satisfied for any physical brane tiling; they follow from the conformality of the low energy field theory on the D-branes. As a byproduct I also provide a simple direct proof that any physical brane tiling has a perfect matching.

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@article{arxiv.0902.0614,
  title  = {Consistently melting crystals},
  author = {Klaus Larjo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.0614},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages, 11 figures

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