Topological Strings and Quantum Curves

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Author(s): Lotte Hollands
Publisher: Pallas Pub.
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 309

Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Calabi-Yau Geometry......Page 24
I-brane Perspective on Vafa-Witten Theory and WZW Models......Page 40
Topological Strings, Free Fermions and Gauge Theory......Page 78
Quantum Integrable Hierarchies......Page 122
Quantum Curves in Matrix Models and Gauge Theory......Page 156
Dyons and Wall-Crossing......Page 198
Fluxes and Metastability......Page 244
Level-rank duality......Page 282
Bibliography......Page 286
Samenvatting......Page 302
Acknowledgments......Page 308