Dimer Models from Mirror Symmetry and Quivering Amoebae
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Feng, Bo
He, Yang-Hui
Kennaway, Kristian D.
Vafa, Cumrun
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Feng, Bo, Yang-Hui He, Kristian D. Kennaway, and Cumrun Vafa. 2008. “Dimer Models from Mirror Symmetry and Quivering Amoebae.” Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 12 (3): 489–545. https://doi.org/10.4310/atmp.2008.v12.n3.a2.Abstract
Dimer models are 2-dimensional combinatorial systems that have been shown to encode the gauge groups, matter content and tree-level super-potential of the world-volume quiver gauge theories obtained by placing D3-branes at the tip of a singular toric Calabi-Yau cone. In particular the dimer graph is dual to the quiver graph. However, the string theoretic explanation of this was unclear. In this paper we use mirror symmetry to shed light on this: the dimer models live on a T-2 subspace of the T-3 fibre that is involved in mirror symmetry and is wrapped by D6-branes. These D6-branes are mirror to the D3-branes at the singular point, and geometrically encode the same quiver theory on their world-volume.Terms of Use
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