English

Reverse geometric engineering of singularities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

One can geometrically engineer supersymmetric field theories theories by placing D-branes at or near singularities. The opposite process is described, where one can reconstruct the singularities from quiver theories. The description is in terms of a noncommutative quiver algebra which is constructed from the quiver diagram and the superpotential. The center of this noncommutative algebra is a commutative algebra, which is the ring of holomorphic functions on a variety V. If certain algebraic conditions are met, then the reverse geometric engineering produces V as the geometry that D-branes probe. It is also argued that the identification of V is invariant under Seiberg dualities.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0201093,
  title  = {Reverse geometric engineering of singularities},
  author = {David Berenstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0201093},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages, Latex. v2: updates references