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We present the complete classification of smooth toric Fano threefolds, known to the algebraic geometry literature, and perform some preliminary analyses in the context of brane-tilings and Chern-Simons theory on M2-branes probing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-08 Amihay Hanany , Yang-Hui He

Global symmetry anomalies of a quantum field theory (QFT) can be packaged as specific couplings of a higher-dimensional symmetry theory (SymTh). In this work we show that for 5D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) engineered from M-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Vivek Chakrabhavi , Mirjam Cvetič , Jonathan J. Heckman , Shani Meynet

A new type of quiver theories, denoted twin quivers, was recently introduced for studying $5d$ SCFTs engineered by webs of 5-branes ending on 7-branes. Twin quivers provide an alternative perspective on various aspects of such webs,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Sebastian Franco , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

We introduce brane brick models, a novel type of Type IIA brane configurations consisting of D4-branes ending on an NS5-brane. Brane brick models are T-dual to D1-branes over singular toric Calabi-Yau 4-folds. They fully encode the infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-16 Sebastian Franco , Sangmin Lee , Rak-Kyeong Seong

We study 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ supersymmetric quiver gauge theories that describe the low-energy dynamics of D1-branes at Calabi-Yau fourfold (CY$_4$) singularities. On general grounds, the holomorphic sector of these theories---matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-22 Cyril Closset , Jirui Guo , Eric Sharpe

We study supersymmetric indices of the 6d $(2,0)$ theory of $N$ M5-branes on toric Sasaki-Einstein five-manifolds. Embedding the background into a local toric Calabi-Yau four-fold and equivariantly integrating the anomaly polynomial yields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Kiril Hristov

Given a brane tiling, that is a bipartite graph on a torus, we can associate with it a quiver potential and a quiver potential algebra. Under certain consistency conditions on a brane tiling, we prove a formula for the Donaldson-Thomas type…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-29 Sergey Mozgovoy , Markus Reineke

We study the large N superconformal index of quiver gauge theories describing the worldvolume of D3 branes probing toric Calabi Yau singularities. The index has been previously noticed to factorize over the set of the extremal BPS mesonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-26 Prarit Agarwal , Antonio Amariti , Alberto Mariotti

In previous work we proposed a field theory model for multiple M2-branes based on an algebra with a totally antisymmetric triple product. In this paper we gauge a symmetry that arises from the algebra's triple product. We then construct a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan Bagger , Neil Lambert

We consider SU(2)-equivariant dimensional reduction of Yang-Mills theory on manifolds of the form $M\times S^3/\Gamma$, where $M$ is a smooth manifold and $S^3/\Gamma$ is a three-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein orbifold. We obtain new quiver…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-31 Olaf Lechtenfeld , Alexander D. Popov , Richard J. Szabo

We derive the quiver gauge theory on the world-volume of D3-branes transverse to an L(a,b,c) singularity by computing the endomorphism algebra of a tilting object first constructed by Van den Bergh. The quiver gauge theory can be concisely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-18 Richard Eager

A new infinite class of Chern-Simons theories is presented using brane tilings. The new class reproduces all known cases so far and introduces many new models that are dual to M2 brane theories which probe a toric non-compact CY 4-fold. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Amihay Hanany , Alberto Zaffaroni

Inspired by geometric engineering method, we approach qubit systems in the context of D-branes in type II superstrings. Concretely, we establish a correspondence between such quantum systems and polyvalent singularities appearing in local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-02 Adil Belhaj

We use large N duality to study brane/anti-brane configurations on a class of Calabi-Yau manifolds. With only branes present, the Calabi-Yau manifolds in question give rise to N=2 ADE quiver theories deformed by superpotential terms. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mina Aganagic , Christopher Beem , Ben Freivogel

Without recourse to the sophisticated machinery of twisted group algebras, projective character tables and explicit values of 2-cocycles, we here present a simple algorithm to study the gauge theory data of D-brane probes on a generic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Bo Feng , Amihay Hanany , Yang-Hui He , Nikolaos Prezas

We study four dimensional quiver gauge models from F-theory compactified on fourfolds with hyper-K\"{a}hler structure. Using intersecting complex toric surfaces, we derive a class of N=1 quivers with charged fundamental matter placed on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 Adil Belhaj , Moulay Brahim Sedra

The low energy effective theory on a stack of D3-branes at a Calabi-Yau singularity is an $\mathcal{N} = 1$ quiver gauge theory. The AdS/CFT correspondence predicts that the strong coupling dynamics of the gauge theory is described by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-09 Richard Eager

A graded quiver with superpotential is a quiver whose arrows are assigned degrees $c\in \{0, 1, \cdots, m\}$, for some integer $m \geq 0$, with relations generated by a superpotential of degree $m-1$. Ordinary quivers ($m=1)$ often describe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-20 Cyril Closset , Sebastian Franco , Jirui Guo , Azeem Hasan

Via partial resolution of Abelian orbifolds we present an algorithm for extracting a consistent set of gauge theory data for an arbitrary toric variety whose singularity a D-brane probes. As illustrative examples, we tabulate the matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-03 Bo Feng , Amihay Hanany , Yang-Hui He

We determine all toric phases for the $2d$ $(0,2)$ theories on D1-branes probing the complex cones over the 18 smooth Fano 3-folds, whose toric diagrams correspond to the regular reflexive polytopes in 3 dimensions. These results…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-11 Mario Carcamo , Sebastián Franco