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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