Abelian Orbifolds for Brane Brick Models

Abstract

We present a systematic procedure for constructing brane brick models corresponding to abelian orbifolds of toric Calabi-Yau 4-folds, extending the orbifold construction beyond the well-studied case of abelian orbifolds of C^4. Given a parent brane brick model corresponding to a toric Calabi-Yau 4-fold M, we show that the action of an abelian orbifold group Gamma on the generators of M induces an action on the chiral and Fermi fields as well as the J- and E-terms of the associated 2d (0,2) supersymmetric gauge theory. The requirement that the orbifolded brane brick model remains consistent with the closed paths associated with the J- and E-terms, together with the chiral cycles formed by their products, precisely reproduces the Calabi-Yau condition on the orbifold action. This procedure yields an explicit formula for the J- and E-terms of the orbifolded brane brick model in terms of those of the parent theory. We apply our construction to the brane brick models corresponding to Q^{1,1,1} and D_3, and present the resulting families of 2d (0,2) quiver gauge theories. We also present explicit expressions for generating functions that count distinct abelian orbifolds of Q^{1,1,1} and D_3.