A large $N$ duality via a geometric transition

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00228-0zbMath0983.81050arXivhep-th/0103067WikidataQ126778071 ScholiaQ126778071MaRDI QIDQ5936706

Cumrun Vafa, Ken Intriligator, Freddy Cachazo

Publication date: 4 July 2001

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0103067

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau geometry partially wrapped D-branes supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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A large \(N\) duality via a geometric transition