Lectures on D-branes, Gauge Theories and Calabi-Yau Singularities

Abstract

These lectures, given at the Chinese Academy of Sciences for the BeiJing/HangZhou International Summer School in Mathematical Physics, are intended to introduce, to the beginning student in string theory and mathematical physics, aspects of the rich and beautiful subject of D-brane gauge theories constructed from local Calabi-Yau spaces. Topics such as orbifolds, toric singularities, del Pezzo surfaces as well as chaotic duality will be covered.

Lectures at the BeiJing/HangZhou International Summer School in Mathematical Physics; 49+1 pages, 26 figures and sprinkled anecdotes

References in corpus (3)

• Seiberg Duality for Quiver Gauge Theories
• Duality Walls, Duality Trees and Fractional Branes
• D-Branes, Pi-Stability and Theta-Stability

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• On Dimer Models and Closed String Theories
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• Crepant Resolutions, Quivers and GW/NCDT Duality