18/10/2005, 14:00 — 15:00 — Amphitheatre Pa3, Mathematics Building Andy Neitzke, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
BPS Microstates and Open Topological Strings
I will discuss some recent attempts to
understand the meaning of nonperturbative topological strings---one
approach via counting of BPS microstates, and in particular its
extension to open topological strings, and another via topological
M-theory.
REFERENCES:
M.Aganagic, A.Neitzke, C.Vafa, "BPS Microstates and
the Open Topological String Wave Function",
hep-th/0504054.
R.Dijkgraaf, S.Gukov, A.Neitzke, C.Vafa, "Topological M-theory
as Unification of Form Theories of Gravity",
hep-th/0411073.