Invariants of Toric Seiberg Duality

Understand

Three-branes at a given toric Calabi-Yau singularity lead to different phases of the conformal field theory related by toric (Seiberg) duality.

• Using the dimer model/brane tiling description in terms of bipartite graphs on a torus, we find a new invariant under Seiberg duality, namely the Klein j-invariant of the complex structure parameter in the distinguished isoradial embedding of the dimer, determined by the physical R-charges.
• Additional number theoretic invariants are described in terms of the algebraic number field of the R-charges.
• We also give a new compact description of the a-maximization procedure by introducing a generalized incidence matrix.