Geometry As Seen By String Theory

Abstract

These lecture notes review the topological string theory and its applications to mathematics and physics. They expand on material presented at the Takagi Lectures of the Mathematical Society of Japan on 21 June 2008 at Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University.

29 pages, 2 figures

References in corpus (4)

• Seiberg-Witten Theory and Random Partitions
• Crystal Melting and Toric Calabi-Yau Manifolds
• Topological String Theory on Compact Calabi-Yau: Modularity and Boundary Conditions
• On the noncommutative Donaldson-Thomas invariants arising from brane tilings