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Equivalence of Geometric Engineering and Hanany-Witten

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

We show the equivalence of three different realisations of gauge theory in string theory. These are the Hanany-Witten brane constructions, the use of branes as probes and geometric engineering. We illustrate the equivalence via T- and S-dualities with the simplest non-trivial examples in four dimensions: N = 2 SYM with gauge groups SU(N_1) x SU(N_2) x .....

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9812126,
  title  = {Equivalence of Geometric Engineering and Hanany-Witten},
  author = {Douglas J. Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9812126},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages. Talk to appear in proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium Ahrenshoop on the Theory of Elementary Particles, Buckow, Germany, 1-5 September 1998 and "Quantum aspects of gauge theories, supergravity and unification", Corfu, September 1998. This talk is based on work in collaboration with A. Karch and D. Lust: hep-th/9803232