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Computing Amplitudes in topological M-theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-10-27 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We define a topological quantum membrane theory on a seven dimensional manifold of G2G_2 holonomy. We describe in detail the path integral evaluation for membrane geometries given by circle bundles over Riemann surfaces. We show that when the target space is CY3×S1CY_3\times S^1 quantum amplitudes of non-local observables of membranes wrapping the circle reduce to the A-model amplitudes. In particular for genus zero we show that our model computes the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants. Moreover, for membranes wrapping calibrated homology spheres in the CY3CY_3, we find that the amplitudes of our model are related to Joyce invariants.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0611327,
  title  = {Computing Amplitudes in topological M-theory},
  author = {Giulio Bonelli and Alessandro Tanzini and Maxim Zabzine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0611327},
  year   = {2010}
}

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26 pages