Gauge theories from toric geometry and brane tilings

S Franco, A Hanany, D Martelli, J Sparks… - Journal of High …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
S Franco, A Hanany, D Martelli, J Sparks, D Vegh, B Wecht
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2006iopscience.iop.org
We provide a general set of rules for extracting the data defining a quiver gauge theory from
a given toric Calabi-Yau singularity. Our method combines information from the geometry
and topology of Sasaki-Einstein manifolds, AdS/CFT, dimers, and brane tilings. We explain
how the field content, quantum numbers, and superpotential of a superconformal gauge
theory on D3-branes probing a toric Calabi-Yau singularity can be deduced. The infinite
family of toric singularities with known horizon Sasaki-Einstein manifolds L a, b, c is used to …
Abstract
We provide a general set of rules for extracting the data defining a quiver gauge theory from a given toric Calabi-Yau singularity. Our method combines information from the geometry and topology of Sasaki-Einstein manifolds, AdS/CFT, dimers, and brane tilings. We explain how the field content, quantum numbers, and superpotential of a superconformal gauge theory on D3-branes probing a toric Calabi-Yau singularity can be deduced. The infinite family of toric singularities with known horizon Sasaki-Einstein manifolds L a, b, c is used to illustrate these ideas. We construct the corresponding quiver gauge theories, which may be fully specified by giving a tiling of the plane by hexagons with certain gluing rules. As checks of this construction, we perform a-maximisation as well as Z-minimisation to compute the exact R-charges of an arbitrary such quiver. We also examine a number of examples in detail, including the infinite subfamily L a, b, a, whose smallest member is the Suspended Pinch Point.
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