TL;DR
This paper reviews recent advances in brane tilings, exploring their theoretical foundations and applications in AdS/CFT correspondence, mirror symmetry, and phenomenological model building within supersymmetric gauge theories.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of brane tilings, emphasizing their physical interpretation and diverse applications in theoretical physics.
Findings
Clarified the physical interpretation of brane tilings as fivebrane systems
Applied brane tilings to AdS/CFT correspondence and mirror symmetry
Discussed extensions like orientifolds and phenomenological models
Abstract
We review recent developments in the theory of brane tilings and four-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric quiver gauge theories. This review consists of two parts. In part I, we describe foundations of brane tilings, emphasizing the physical interpretation of brane tilings as fivebrane systems. In part II, we discuss application of brane tilings to AdS/CFT correspondence and homological mirror symmetry. More topics, such as orientifold of brane tilings, phenomenological model building, similarities with BPS solitons in supersymmetric gauge theories, are also briefly discussed. This paper is a revised version of the author's master's thesis submitted to Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo on January 2008, and is based on his several papers: math.AG/0605780, math.AG/0606548, hep-th/0702049, math.AG/0703267, arXiv:0801.3528 and some works in progress.
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