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FIELD
Phys:StringTheory
DATE
Jun 27 (Thu), 2024
TIME
12:00 ~ 14:00
PLACE
1423
SPEAKER
Nam, Sungwoo
HOST
Kim, Sungjoon
INSTITUTE
POSTECH
TITLE
Introduction to Gromov--Witten invariants and Gopakumar--Vafa invariants 2/2
ABSTRACT
In these talks, we study the basic ideas of Gromov--Witten invariants for a CY 3-fold, which arise from a topological string theory. Starting from mathematical preliminaries, we'll discuss the simplest examples of GW invariants. We will also discuss why it is so difficult to compute any non-trivial GW invariants. We will also study some cousins of GW invariants, mainly focusing on Gopakumar--Vafa invariants and its mathematical definition in some simple cases. Both GW and GV invariants conjecturally contain equivalent data for a CY 3-fold. Physically, however, they count different, seemingly-unrelated, things from various string theories.
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