In theoretical physics, a quiver diagram is a graph representing the matter content of a gauge theory that describes D-branes on orbifolds.
supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions.
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 The relevance of quiver diagrams for string theory was pointed out and studied by Michael Douglas and Greg Moore.
[1] While string theorists use the words quiver diagram, many of their colleagues in particle physics call these diagrams mooses.
In this case, the quiver gauge theory is a four-dimensional
The quiver gauge theory in higher dimensions can be defined similarly.
The quiver is particularly convenient for representing conformal gauge theory.
The structure of the quiver makes it easy to check whether the theory preserves conformal symmetry.