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We introduce brane brick models, a novel type of Type IIA brane configurations consisting of D4-branes ending on an NS5-brane. Brane brick models are T-dual to D1-branes over singular toric Calabi-Yau 4-folds. They fully encode the infinite class of 2d (generically) \( \mathcal{N}=\left(0,2\right) \) gauge theories on the worldvolume of the D1-branes and streamline their connection to the probed geometries. For this purpose, we also introduce new combinatorial procedures for deriving the Calabi-Yau associated to a given gauge theory and vice versa.
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Franco, S., Lee, S. & Seong, RK. Brane brick models, toric Calabi-Yau 4-folds and 2d (0,2) quivers. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 47 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)047
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