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D-branes of type II string theory have provided a very picturesque and intuitive way of studying supersymmetric gauge theories. In a paper by Hanany and Witten [1], it was discovered that when a D5-brane passes through an orthogonally oriented NS 5-brane, a D3-brane is created. This transition was subsequently verified in a number of papers [2]. In [3], Seiberg’s duality in N = 1 supersymmetric QCD [4] was found to arise naturally in the framework of D-branes using the Hanany-Witten transition. A prominent feature of N = 1 supersymmetric QCD and non-supersymmetric QCD is chiral symmetry. Here we review how chiral symmetry can be realized in the D-brane construction. This review is based on the papers [5], [7].
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Brodie, J.H. (1999). Branes and Chiral Symmetry. In: Baulieu, L., Di Francesco, P., Douglas, M., Kazakov, V., Picco, M., Windey, P. (eds) Strings, Branes and Dualities. NATO ASI Series, vol 520. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4730-9_20
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