This thesis focuses on various applications of topological string theory based on different types of Calabi-Yau (CY) manifolds. The first type considered is the toric CY manifold, which is intimately related to spectral problems of difference operators. The particular example considered in the thesis closely resembles the Harper-Hofstadter model in condensed matter physics. We first study the non-perturbative sectors in this model, and then propose a new way to compute them using topological string theory. In the second part of the thesis, we consider partition functions on elliptically fibered CY manifolds. These exhibit interesting modular behavior. We show that for geometries which don't lead to non-abelian gauge symmetries, the topologi...
1+34 pages; v2: references addedInternational audienceWe construct a matrix model that reproduces th...
Abstract . We consider the topological B-model on local Calabi-Yau geometries. We show how one can s...
We set up, purely in A-model terms, a novel formalism for the global solution of the open and closed...
This thesis focuses on various applications of topological string theory based on different types of...
This paper describes the reconstruction of the topological string partition function for certain loc...
Abstract We find a direct relation between quiver representation theory and open topological string ...
International audienceWe study the topological string partition function of a class of toric, double...
The topological string partition function Z=exp(lambda^{2g-2} F_g) is calculated on a compact Calabi...
The goal of my talk will be to review some aspects of a program inspired by work of Tom Bridgeland a...
We propose a general correspondence which associates a non-perturbative quantum-mechanical operator ...
We obtain exact results in \alpha' for open and closed A-model topological string amplitudes on a la...
We propose expressions for refined open topological string partition function on certain non-compact...
Two aspects of the topological string and its applications are considered in this thesis. Firstly, n...
This thesis studies certain aspects of the global properties, including geometric and arithmetic, of...
In joint work with I. Coman and E. Pomoni we had recently proposed a definition of the topological s...
1+34 pages; v2: references addedInternational audienceWe construct a matrix model that reproduces th...
Abstract . We consider the topological B-model on local Calabi-Yau geometries. We show how one can s...
We set up, purely in A-model terms, a novel formalism for the global solution of the open and closed...
This thesis focuses on various applications of topological string theory based on different types of...
This paper describes the reconstruction of the topological string partition function for certain loc...
Abstract We find a direct relation between quiver representation theory and open topological string ...
International audienceWe study the topological string partition function of a class of toric, double...
The topological string partition function Z=exp(lambda^{2g-2} F_g) is calculated on a compact Calabi...
The goal of my talk will be to review some aspects of a program inspired by work of Tom Bridgeland a...
We propose a general correspondence which associates a non-perturbative quantum-mechanical operator ...
We obtain exact results in \alpha' for open and closed A-model topological string amplitudes on a la...
We propose expressions for refined open topological string partition function on certain non-compact...
Two aspects of the topological string and its applications are considered in this thesis. Firstly, n...
This thesis studies certain aspects of the global properties, including geometric and arithmetic, of...
In joint work with I. Coman and E. Pomoni we had recently proposed a definition of the topological s...
1+34 pages; v2: references addedInternational audienceWe construct a matrix model that reproduces th...
Abstract . We consider the topological B-model on local Calabi-Yau geometries. We show how one can s...
We set up, purely in A-model terms, a novel formalism for the global solution of the open and closed...