Quiver Chern-Simons theories and crystals

@article{Imamura2008QuiverCT,
  title={Quiver Chern-Simons theories and crystals},
  author={Yosuke Imamura and Keisuke Kimura},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2008},
  volume={2008},
  pages={114-114}
}
We consider = 2 quiver Chern-Simons theories described by brane tilings, whose moduli spaces are toric Calabi-Yau 4-folds. Simple prescriptions to obtain toric data of the moduli space and a corresponding brane crystal from a brane tiling are proposed. 
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