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Brane Tilings
Kristian D. Kennaway
We review and extend the progress made over the past few years in understanding the structure of toric quiver gauge theories; those which are induced on the world-volume of a stack…
Dimer Models from Mirror Symmetry and Quivering Amoebae
Bo Feng, Yang-Hui He, Kristian D. Kennaway +1
Dimer models are 2-dimensional combinatorial systems that have been shown to encode the gauge groups, matter content and tree-level superpotential of the world-volume quiver gauge…
Brane Dimers and Quiver Gauge Theories
Sebastian Franco, Amihay Hanany, Kristian D. Kennaway +2
We describe a technique which enables one to quickly compute an infinite number of toric geometries and their dual quiver gauge theories. The central object in this construction is…
Dimer models and toric diagrams
Amihay Hanany, Kristian D. Kennaway
We propose a duality between quiver gauge theories and the combinatorics of dimer models. The connection is via toric diagrams together with multiplicities associated to points in…
String Theory and the Vacuum Structure of Confining Gauge Theories
Kristian D. Kennaway
We discuss recent progress in the understanding of the vacuum structure (effective superpotentials) of confining gauge theories with N=1 supersymmetry. Even for non-supersymmetric…
Effective Potentials and the Vacuum Structure of Quantum Field Theories
Kristian D. Kennaway
I review some older work on the effective potentials of quantum field theories, in particular the use of anomalous symmetries to constrain the form of the effective potential, and…