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Chiral flavors and M2-branes at toric CY4 singularities

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We extend the stringy derivation of \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) AdS4/CFT3 dualities to cases where the M-theory circle degenerates at complex codimension-two submanifolds of a toric conical CY4. The type IIA backgrounds include D6-branes, and the dual \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) quiver gauge theories contain chiral flavors. We provide a general recipe to derive the geometric moduli space of flavored versions of Abelian toric quiver gauge theories. The CY4 cone is reproduced thanks to a non-trivial quantum F-term relation between diagonal monopole operators and bifundamental fields. We find new field theory duals to many geometries, including Q 111.

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    Francesco Benini

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    Cyril Closset

  3. Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978, Israel

    Stefano Cremonesi

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Benini, F., Closset, C. & Cremonesi, S. Chiral flavors and M2-branes at toric CY4 singularities. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 36 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2010)036

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