Non-toric brane webs, Calabi-Yau 3-folds, and 5d SCFTs

Valery Alexeev, Hülya Argüz, Pierrick Bousseau

We study webs of 5-branes with 7-branes in Type IIB string theory from a geometric perspective. Mathematically, a web of 5-branes with 7-branes is a tropical curve in $\mathbb{R}^2…