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.

Slides of the Course:

References:

  1. 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.
  2. M. Aganagic, A. Klemm, M. Marino and C. Vafa, ``The topological vertex,'' arXiv:hep-th/0305132.
  3. M. Aganagic, R. Dijkgraaf, A. Klemm, M. Marino and C. Vafa, ``Topological strings and integrable hierarchies,'' arXiv:hep-th/0312085.
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