Topological strings, two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and Chern-Simons theory on torus bundles

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2008.V12.N5.A2zbMATH Open1146.81043arXivhep-th/0609129OpenAlexW2003358463MaRDI QIDQ945877FDOQ945877

Sara Pasquetti, Michele Cirafici, Domenico Seminara, Nicola Caporaso, Luca Griguolo, Richard J. Szabo

Publication date: 18 September 2008

Published in: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the relations between two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory on the torus, topological string theory on a Calabi-Yau threefold whose local geometry is the sum of two line bundles over the torus, and Chern-Simons theory on torus bundles. The chiral partition function of the Yang-Mills gauge theory in the large N limit is shown to coincide with the topological string amplitude computed by topological vertex techniques. We use Yang-Mills theory as an efficient tool for the computation of Gromov-Witten invariants and derive explicitly their relation with Hurwitz numbers of the torus. We calculate the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, whose integrality gives a non-trivial confirmation of the conjectured nonperturbative relation between two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and topological string theory. We also demonstrate how the gauge theory leads to a simple combinatorial solution for the Donaldson-Thomas theory of the Calabi-Yau background. We match the instanton representation of Yang-Mills theory on the torus with the nonabelian localization of Chern-Simons gauge theory on torus bundles over the circle. We also comment on how these results can be applied to the computation of exact degeneracies of BPS black holes in the local Calabi-Yau background.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0609129

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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