In physics, a quiver diagram is a graph representing the matter content of a gauge theory that describes D-branes on orbifolds.
Each node of the graph corresponds to a factor U(N) of the gauge group, and each link represents a field in the bifundamental representation
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The relevance of quiver diagrams for string theory was pointed out and studied by Michael Douglas and Greg Moore.
While string theorists use the words quiver diagram, many of their colleagues in particle physics call these diagrams mooses.
Famous quotes containing the words quiver and/or diagram:
“I know that Quiet
Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
Among pigeons and bees, while the Great Archer,
Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
““God’s fire upon the wane,
A diagram hung there instead,
More women born than men.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)