D-branes, Quivers, and ALE Instantons

1996/03/26 by Douglas, Michael R., Moore, Gregory · 6 citations
#Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9603167

Abstract

Effective field theories in type I and II superstring theories for D-branes located at points in the orbifold C²/Z_n are supersymmetric gauge theories whose field content is conveniently summarized by a `quiver diagram,' and whose Lagrangian includes non-metric couplings to the orbifold moduli: in particular, twisted sector moduli couple as Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in the gauge theory. These theories describe D-branes on resolved ALE spaces. Their spaces of vacua are moduli spaces of smooth ALE metrics and Yang-Mills instantons, whose metrics are explicitly computable. For U(N) instantons, the construction exactly reproduces results of Kronheimer and Nakajima.

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