EQUIVALENCE OF GEOMETRIC ENGINEERING AND HANANY-WITTEN VIA FRACTIONALBRANES

Authors
KARCH A LUST D SMITH DJ
Citation
A. Karch et al., EQUIVALENCE OF GEOMETRIC ENGINEERING AND HANANY-WITTEN VIA FRACTIONALBRANES, Nuclear physics. B, 533(1-3), 1998, pp. 348-372
Citations number
65
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields","Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B → ACNP
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
533
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
348 - 372
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1998)533:1-3<348:EOGEAH>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We present an explicit relation between the Hanany-Witten and Geometri c Engineering approaches of realizing gauge theories in string theory. The last piece in the puzzle is a T-duality relating arbitrary Hanany -Witten setups and fractional branes. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.