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A new type of quiver theories, denoted twin quivers, was recently introduced for studying 5d SCFTs engineered by webs of 5-branes ending on 7-branes. Twin quivers provide an alternative perspective on various aspects of such webs, including Hanany-Witten moves and the s-rule. More ambitiously, they can be regarded as a first step towards the construction of combinatorial objects, generalizing brane tilings, encoding the corresponding BPS quivers. This paper continues the investigation of twin quivers, focusing on their non-uniqueness, which stems from the multiplicity of toric phases for a given toric Calabi-Yau 3-fold. We find that the different twin quivers are necessary for describing what we call quiver tails, which in turn correspond to certain sub-configurations in the webs. More generally, the multiplicity of twin quivers captures the roots of the Higgs branch in the extended Coulomb branch of 5d theories.
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The 5d tangram: brane webs, 7-branes and primitive T-cones
Two highly successful approaches to constructing 5d SCFTs are geometric engineering using M-theory on a Calabi-Yau 3-fold and the use of 5-brane webs suspended from 7-branes in Type IIB string theory. In the brane web realization, the extended Coulomb branch of the 5d SCFT can be studied by opening the web using rigid triple intersections of branes — i.e. configurations with no deformations. In this paper, we argue that the geometric engineering counterpart of these rigid triple intersections are the T-cones introduced in the mathematical literature. We extend the class of rigid brane webs to include locked superpositions of the minimal ones. These rigid brane webs serve as fundamental building blocks for supersymmetrically tessellating Generalized Toric Polygons (GTPs) from first principles. Interestingly, we find that the extended Coulomb branch generally exhibits a structure consisting of multiple cones intersecting at a single point. Hanany-Witten (HW) transitions in the web have been conjectured to correspond geometrically to flat fibrations over a line, where the central and generic fibers represent the geometries dual to the webs before and after the transition. We demonstrate this explicitly in an example, showing that for GTPs reducing to standard toric diagrams, the HW transition corresponds to a deformation of the BPS quiver that we map to the geometric deformation.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2412479
- PAR ID:
- 10600972
- Publisher / Repository:
- Springer
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Volume:
- 2025
- Issue:
- 5
- ISSN:
- 1029-8479
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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