nLab Amihay Hanany

Amihay Hanany is professor for theoretical physics at Imperial College London.

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Selected writings

On small instantons as NS5-branes/M5-branes in E8-heterotic string theory/heterotic M-theory:

• Ori Ganor, Amihay Hanany, Small $E_8$ Instantons and Tensionless Non-critical Strings, Nucl. Phys. B474 (1996) 122-140 (arXiv:hep-th/9602120)

• Amihay Hanany, Noppadol Mekareeya, The Small $E_8$ Instanton and the Kraft Procesi Transition, JHEP07 (2018) 098 (arXiv:1801.01129)

On geometric engineering of quantum field theories involving NS5-branes and introducing the Hanany-Witten effect and other effects of NS5-brane/D-brane intersections:

• Amihay Hanany, Edward Witten, Type IIB Superstrings, BPS Monopoles, And Three-Dimensional Gauge Dynamics, Nucl. Phys.B 492 (1997) 152-190 [arXiv:hep-th/9611230, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)80030-2]

On D-branes intersecting NS5-branes:

• John Brodie, Amihay Hanany, Type IIA Superstrings, Chiral Symmetry, and N=1 4D Gauge Theory Dualities, Nucl.Phys. B506 (1997) 157-182 (arXiv:hep-th/9704043)

On (p,q)5-brane webs:

• Ofer Aharony, Amihay Hanany, Barak Kol, Webs of $(p,q)$ 5-branes, Five Dimensional Field Theories and Grid Diagrams, JHEP 9801:002,1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9710116)

• Ofer Aharony, Amihay Hanany, Branes, Superpotentials and Superconformal Fixed Points, Nucl. Phys. B504:239-271, 1997 (arXiv:hep-th/9704170)

and their intersection with orientifolds:

• Amihay Hanany, Alberto Zaffaroni, Issues on Orientifolds: On the brane construction of gauge theories with $SO(2n)$ global symmetry, JHEP 9907 (1999) 009 (arXiv:hep-th/9903242)

Discussion of a BFSS-like matrix model for MK6-branes:

• Amihay Hanany, Gilad Lifschytz, M(atrix) Theory on $T^6$ and a m(atrix) Theory Description of KK Monopoles, Nucl. Phys. B519:195-213, 1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9708037)

On toric duality:

• Bo Feng, Amihay Hanany, Yang-Hui He, D-brane gauge theories from toric singularities and toric duality, Nucl. Phys. B 595 (2001) 165 (arXiv:hep-th/0003085)

• Bo Feng, Amihay Hanany, Yang-Hui He, Phase structure of D-brane gauge theories and toric duality , J. High Energy Phys. 08 (2001) 040 (hep-th/0104259)

• Bo Feng, Amihay Hanany, Yang-Hui He, Angel Uranga, Toric duality as Seiberg duality and brane diamonds, J. High Energy Phys. 12 (2001) 035 (hep-th/0109063)

• Bo Feng, S. Franco, Amihay Hanany, Yang-Hui He, Unhiggsing the del Pezzo, J. High Energy Phys. 08 (2003) 058 (hep-th/0209228)

On discrete torsion:

• Bo Feng, Amihay Hanany, Yang-Hui He, Nikolaos Prezas, Discrete Torsion, Non-Abelian Orbifolds and the Schur Multiplier, JHEP 0101:033, 2001 (arXiv:hep-th/0010023)

On vortex strings:

• Amihay Hanany, David Tong, Vortices, Instantons and Branes, JHEP 0307 (2003) 037 (arXiv:hep-th/0306150)

• Amihay Hanany, David Tong, Vortex Strings and Four-Dimensional Gauge Dynamics, JHEP 0404 (2004) 066 (arXiv:hep-th/0403158)

• David Tong, Quantum Vortex Strings: A Review, Annals Phys. 324:30-52, 2009 (arXiv:0809.5060)

• David Tong, Vortices, Strings, and Vortex Strings (pdf)

On heterotic M-theory on ADE-orbifolds:

• Santiago Cabrera, Amihay Hanany, Marcus Sperling, Magnetic Quivers, Higgs Branches, and 6d $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ Theories, J. High Energ. Phys. (2019) 2019: 71 (arXiv:1904.12293)

On D=3 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory:

• Stefano Cremonesi, Amihay Hanany, Alberto Zaffaroni, Monopole operators and Hilbert series of Coulomb branches of 3d $\mathcal{N} = 4$ gauge theories, JHEP 01 (2014) 005 (arXiv:1309.2657)

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• super Yang-Mills theory

• Seiberg duality

• AdS-CFT

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