Marcos MARIÑO
(CERN, Geneve & Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon)
Topological strings on Calabi-Yau geometries, integrable
hierarchies and matrix models
In this minicourse I provide an overview
of the relations between Gromov-Witten
theory on noncompact Calabi-Yau manifolds,
integrable systems, and matrix models.
References:
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M. Aganagic, A. Klemm, M. Marino and C. Vafa,
``Matrix model as a mirror of Chern-Simons theory,''
JHEP 0402, 010 (2004) arXiv:hep-th/0211098.
- M. Aganagic, A. Klemm, M. Marino and C. Vafa,
``The topological vertex,''
arXiv:hep-th/0305132.
- M. Aganagic, R. Dijkgraaf, A. Klemm, M. Marino and C. Vafa,
``Topological strings and integrable hierarchies,''
arXiv:hep-th/0312085.