Branes at Singularities
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چکیده
We obtain N = 1 SU(N) gauge theories with bifundamental matter and a quartic superpotential as the low energy theory on D3-branes at singular points. These theories generalize that on D3-branes at a conifold point, studied recently by Klebanov and Witten. For k = 3 the defining equation of the singular point is that of an isolated D4 singularity. For k > 3 we obtain a family of multimodular singularities. The considered SU(N) theories flow in the infrared to a non-trivial fixed point. We analyze the AdS/CFT correspondence for our examples.
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