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Equivalence of Geometric Engineering and Hanany-Witten via Fractional Branes

Andreas Karch, Dieter Lust, Douglas J. Smith

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9803232

Abstract

We present an explicit relation between the Hanany-Witten and Geometric Engineering approaches of realising gauge theories in string theory. The last piece in the puzzle is a T-duality relating arbitrary Hanany-Witten setups and fractional branes.

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