Notes on topological strings and knot contact homology

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Authors Tobias Ekholm

Publication date 6 August 2015

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0800

zbMATH Keywords

augmentation varietyChern-Simons theoryknot contact homologytopological string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic field theory; contact homology (53D42) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: We give an introduction to the physics and mathematics involved in the recently observed relation between topological string theory and knot contact homology and then discuss this relation. The note is based on two lectures given at the Gokova Geometry and Topology Conference, 2013 and reports on joint work by Aganagic, Ng, Vafa, and the author.

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