The string geometry behind topological amplitudes

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Abstract: It is shown that the generating function of mathscrN=2 topological strings, in the heterotic weak coupling limit, is identified with the partition function of a six-dimensional Melvin background. This background, which corresponds to an exact CFT, realises in string theory the six-dimensional varOmega-background of Nekrasov, in the case of opposite deformation parameters epsilon1=epsilon2, thus providing the known perturbative part of the Nekrasov partition function in the field theory limit. The analysis is performed on both heterotic and type I strings and for the cases of ordinary mathscrN=2 and mathscrN=2 theories.









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