On the Gopakumar-Ooguri-Vafa correspondence for Clifford-Klein 3-manifolds
Abstract
Gopakumar, Ooguri and Vafa famously proposed the existence of a correspondence between a topological gauge theory on one hand ( Chern-Simons theory on the three-sphere) and a topological string theory on the other (the topological A-model on the resolved conifold). On the physics side, this duality provides a concrete instance of the large gauge/string correspondence where exact computations can be performed in detail; mathematically, it puts forward a triangle of striking relations between quantum invariants (Reshetikhin-Turaev-Witten) of knots and 3-manifolds, curve-counting invariants (Gromov-Witten/Donaldson-Thomas) of local Calabi-Yau 3-folds, and the Eynard-Orantin recursion for a specific class of spectral curves. I quickly survey recent results on the most general frame of validity of this correspondence and discuss some of its implications.
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@article{arxiv.1711.07826,
title = {On the Gopakumar-Ooguri-Vafa correspondence for Clifford-Klein 3-manifolds},
author = {Andrea Brini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.07826},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Write-up of a talk at the AMS Von Neumann symposium 2016, meant as a short survey, with a more physical slant, of arXiv:1506.06887 and Section 4.2 of arXiv:1711.05958 to which the reader is referred for the original material and more details. 18 pages