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M-Theory Origin of Mirror Symmetry in Three Dimensional Gauge Theories

M. Porrati, A. Zaffaroni

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9611201

Abstract

We present M-theory compactifications on K3 × K3 with membranes near the An or Dn singularities of the K3 spaces. By realizing each of these compactifications in two different ways as type I' models with 2- and 6-branes, we explain the three-dimensional duality between gauge theories recently found by Intriligator and Seiberg. We also find new pairs of dual gauge theories, which we briefly describe.

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