Graded Quivers, Generalized Dimer Models and Toric Geometry

Authors

Sebastián Franco, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow
Azeem Hasan, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-18-2019

Abstract

The open string sector of the topological B-model on CY (m+2)-folds is described by m-graded quivers with superpotentials. This correspondence extends to general m the well known connection between CY (m+2)-folds and gauge theories on the world-volume of D(5-2m)-branes for m = 0, ..., 3. We introduce m-dimers, which fully encode the m-graded quivers and their superpotentials, in the case in which the CY (m+2)-folds are toric. Generalizing the well known m = 1,2 cases, m-dimers significantly simplify the connection between geometry and m-graded quivers. A key result of this paper is the generalization of the concept of perfect matching, which plays a central role in this map, to arbitrary m. We also introduce a simplified algorithm for the computation of perfect matchings, which generalizes the Kasteleyn matrix approach to any m. We illustrate these new tools with a few infinite families of CY singularities.

Comments

This article was originally published in the Journal of High Energy Physics, available at DOI:10.1007/JHEP11(2019)104

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