Enumerative geometry and knot invariants
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v4 Algebraic Geometry
Geometric Topology
Abstract
We review the string/gauge theory duality relating Chern-Simons theory and topological strings on noncompact Calabi-Yau manifolds, as well as its mathematical implications for knot invariants and enumerative geometry.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210145,
title = {Enumerative geometry and knot invariants},
author = {Marcos Marino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210145},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
69 pages, 13 figures, LaTeX, reference added, typos corrected. To appear in the Proceedings of the meeting of theoretical physicists and mathematicians held at Strasbourg, May 2002